According to numbers provided by the school district in New Fairfield, the highest paid school employee there last year was the high school principal. Principal James D’Amico topped the list of 594 district employees, with his annual salary of $188,098 last calendar year. That figure marked a slight increase from the $186,400 that he made the year before. In total, the New Fairfield School District paid out nearly $29 million in salaries last year.