Saucon Valley School District administrators will now see a bump in their pay.

At the Sept. 22 meeting, the school board approved the administrator compensation plan by a vote of 6-2. The plan will see the pay of administrators, supervisors and employees, other than teachers, increase from 3 to 5 percent.

Voting in opposition were board members Bryan Eichfeld and Susan Baxter.

The agreement provides that 14 administrators, including principals, assistant principals, the assistant to the superintendent and other supervisors, will receive a 5 percent increase in their salary.

The plan is effective July 1 and runs until June 30, 2016. The administrator increase contracts run for one year, the contracts for the superintendent and assistant to the superintendent run for three years and the contract for the business manager is effective for five years.

Under the agreement, Eichfeld, district Superintendent Monica McHale-Small and business Manager David Bonenberger will see 3 percent raises each.

Eichfeld argued for merit-based pay raises. He said he was particularly concerned with the higher pay increases included in the recent teachers’ contract approved by the board.

According to Bonenberger, administrators and supervisors did not see a pay increase in 2012-13. In 2013-14 they received a 3 percent bump and in 2014-15 they saw a 2.1 percent increase.

“Due to ongoing teachers negotiations, which took up much of the board’s time this summer, the board was finally able to finalize the agreements,” he told the board.

In other business, the board recognized middle school teachers Amanda Giangiobbe and Daniel Mack for receiving the 2015 PA Council on Math Teacher Award. Giangiobbe received the middle school math new teacher of the year award and Mack received the middle school math teacher of the year award.