Highest superintendent total salaries: Dane County, WI 2025-26
Superintendent total salaries across 14 Dane County, Wisconsin school districts, 2025-26. Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District leads at $245,310.…
- Districts ranked
- 14
- Period
- 2025-26
- Publication floor
- 8 districts
- Tie rule
- Equal values share a rank; the next rank skips.
- County definition
- The county holding the largest share of the district's land area (NCES EDGE, 2024–25).
Wisconsin DPI Public Administrative Salary Report, 2025-26, position 05 District Administrator: one position, identified by its title, not the person. The figure is the total salary each district reports for the person across all of their assignments with it in the year, not only the district administrator assignment.
Measure: Superintendent (district administrator): total salary across all assignments.
Source: Wisconsin DPI.
Ranked districts
- 1. Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District — $245,310
- 2. Verona Area School District — $243,659
- 3. Sun Prairie Area School District — $241,774
- 4. Monona Grove School District — $221,520
- 5. Oregon School District — $221,450
- 6. Waunakee Community School District — $221,343
- 7. Mount Horeb Area School District — $215,341
- 8. Stoughton Area School District — $211,334
- 9. De Forest Area School District — $203,304
- 10. Belleville School District — $162,750
- 11. Wisconsin Heights School District — $159,573
- 12. Deerfield Community School District — $157,701
- 13. Marshall School District — $154,502
- 14. Cambridge School District — $152,000
Not ranked
- Madison Metropolitan School District — The state's file lists 2 figures for this measure here: 1 of 2: total salary across all assignments (1 FTE): $304,980; 2 of 2: total salary across all assignments (1 FTE): $201,555. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.
- McFarland School District — The state's file lists 2 figures for this measure here: 1 of 2: total salary across all assignments (1 FTE): $188,017; 2 of 2: total salary across all assignments (1 FTE): $130,000. Each is shown on the district page; none is ranked as the district's single figure.