{"id":11170,"date":"2017-06-20T01:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2017-06-20T01:41:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T05:41:56","slug":"raise-makes-brick-school-administrator-highest-paid-in-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/06\/raise-makes-brick-school-administrator-highest-paid-in-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Makes Brick School Business Administrator Highest Paid in District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1639\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract.jpg\" alt=\"James Edwards (File Photo)\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract.jpg 660w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract-600x300.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Edwards (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the Brick school district\u2019s most highly-paid employees was quietly awarded a raise at the Board of Education\u2019s June 1 meeting, making him the highest-paid individual in the district.<\/p>\n<p>James Edwards, the longtime business administrator, will see his pay increase from\u00a0$176,74 to $178,508. He will receive an additional $4,000 if he chooses not to utilize the district\u2019s health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>The move will officially make Edwards the district\u2019s highest-paid employee, with a salary higher than the state maximum even a superintendent can receive. Interim Superintendent Thomas Gialanella is paid $682.69 per day, the equivalent of a\u00a0$177,500 salary.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards is tenured in the business administrator position. The raise was quietly approved at the June 1 meeting. Breaking with tradition, a new contract was not specifically placed on the meeting agenda, rather, Edwards\u2019 name was included in a list of non-union employees whose salaries were being set for the upcoming 2017-18 school year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/06\/raise-makes-brick-school-administrator-highest-paid-in-district\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Brick school district\u2019s most highly-paid employees was quietly awarded a raise at the Board of Education\u2019s June 1 meeting, making him the highest-paid individual in the district. James Edwards, the longtime business administrator, will see his pay increase from\u00a0$176,74 to $178,508. He will receive an additional $4,000 if he chooses not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[24,593,2948,469,1553],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-schools","tag-highest-paid","tag-james-edwards","tag-school-business-administrator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/edwards_contract.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}