The Board of Education will take a crack at what new principals and assistant principals should be paid at its meeting Monday night.

The policy handed up to the board by the Human Resources Committee meeting last week calls for principals with limited experience to earn more than $85,000 at an elementary school and nearly $100,000 at a high school.

“It will be discussed at the board and then I would expect a vote would be taken,” Superintendent of Schools Mark Conrad said in a phone interview on Friday. “It shows the beginning salary that’s based on salaries we’ve been hiring at but what it does is add a structure to how we determine those salaries in the future when people are hired.”

The policy would see assistant principals candidates who are not certified and with less than one year of experience as an assistant principal or principal and less than ten years of experience in education paid $70,826, if working at an elementary school, and $78, 588 if working at a secondary school, according to the policy.

An uncertified principal candidate with less than one year of experience as a principal and less than three years of experience as an assistant principal would make $85,380 at an elementary school, $90,231 at a middle school, and $99,933 at a high school, according to the policy.

Salary rates are based on previous experience and an individual’s salary would be adjusted based on the years the new principal or assistant principal has been a teacher or an assistant principal, according to the policy.

The salary scale was discussed at a Human Resources Committee meeting last week, and was approved to move on to the full board.

“It’s really based on the job you’re asking them to do, with some variation based on experience,” Conrad said at the committee meeting.

BOE and Human Resource Committee member Sandra Ziehm voted against policy draft and said seniority and employee loyalty should be taken into account.

“If I were a 25- to 30-year teacher and I saw that you were hiring somebody with three years of experience and I was only making $6,000 more, if I divided that into 25 years, it does not sound proportionate.”

The Board of Education meeting is scheduled Monday at 7 p.m., at the Nashua High School North Lecture Hall.

Emily Hoyt can be reached at 594-6402 or ehoyt@nashua
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