Bob Dohr:

When it comes to superintendent salaries for school districts in the Milwaukee suburbs, the district administrators at Nicolet and Arrowhead are at the head of the class.

Surprisingly, those districts are among the smallest in terms of enrollment for the metropolitan area.

Robert Kobylski, administrator of the Nicolet Union High School District and Fox Point-Bayside, one of its feeder districts, tops the list of the 40 superintendents in the Now News Group coverage area with a salary of $214,172 and an overall compensation — salary plus benefits — of $298,577.

Second is Laura Myrah, superintendent at the Arrowhead Union High School District, with an overall compensation of $275,087. That includes a salary of $190,673 and benefits of $84,414.

Like Nicolet, the Arrowhead district covers high school only, grades 9 through 12.

Neither are huge districts in terms of student population. Arrowhead’s enrollment for 2017-18 was 2,174. The enrollment of Nicolet plus Fox Point-Bayside was 1,916.

That puts them in the bottom half of Milwaukee-area districts in terms of student population and below the average enrollment of 3,260.

Hamilton’s Paul Mielke, Wauwatosa’s Phillip Ertl and Elmbrook’s Mark Hansen comprise the rest of the top five in terms of total compensation, according to salary figures obtained from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction from the 2017-18 school year, the most recent year for which information is available. Enrollment numbers are also from 2017-18.