School District 43's 100 club — the employees who get paid more than $100,000 a year — shrank last year, the 2014/’15 statement of financial information shows.
Last year, 110 SD43 staff, mostly administrators, were paid $100,000 or more, down from 117 in 2013/’14.
Among the top wage earners was superintendent Patricia Gartland, who earned $168,782.93 last year, with $59,288 in expenses, funds that were used to pay for trips for marketing the district's international education program and is paid for funds generated by fees foreign students pay.
Gartland, who formerly headed the district's international education department, took over the reigns of the district from Tom Grant, who retired at the end of last year but was paid $140,462.02 for his final months of service with SD43, with $5,272.89 in expenses during the 2014/’15 school year.
Other top earners in SD43 were:
• Mark Ferrari, secretary treasurer, who earned $151,321.67, with $12,149.82 in expenses;
• Julie Pearce, assistant superintendent, who moved to Vancouver district at the end of the last school year was paid $145,199.95;
• Carey Chute, assistant superintendent, who earned $141,797.05, with $6,343.42 in expenses;
• Reno Ciolfi, assistant superintendent, who earned $144,671.64 with $5,906.23 in expenses;
• and Jamie Ross, the former head of human resource, who left the district at the end of the last school year and was paid $136,020.04, with $10,670.72 in expenses.
