What The Employees Earn: Village Of Granville

I hope teacher salaries are not posted if others will be applying the type of simplified and uninformed analysis suggested by Interested Observer.

PS: This was intended to be posted below. Sorry, it’s a bit out of context sitting up here, as a new thread and by itself.

When comparing government salaries to those in the private sector, a conversion factor needs to be applied. When I was on Council, my recollection is that the “benefits” cost was about 25 percent of the salaries. The benefits included a very generous health insurance plan, a defined benefit retirement plan, sick leave, etc. Thus, when comparing salaries to those in the private sector, one needs to increase the government salaries appropriately by the value of the benefits.

In considering whether salaries are appropriate or not, the real test is whether we are getting the people we want and whether we are keeping those people. Rather than increasing salaries across the board, we probably should have looked at this selectively. For example, when I was on Council, there was some discussion that we would train our police officers, and when trained, the officers would leave for another community that had higher paying jobs. This would be an indication that we might have needed to increase certain salaries in the police department. Also, we have experienced a succession of Village Planners, and each time someone new comes in, they have to learn the history of WHY certain zoning ordinances are in place. Maybe, it would be worth paying more to keep the person we want in this position.

On the other hand, maybe some salaries were already in line, or even over paid. I question whether this sizable of an increase across the board was appropriate in this period of economic stagnation. In some areas, we are paying tens of thousands of dollars more than we were just a few years ago.

Some of those PD employees could probably qualify for welfare

Just curious
I am wondering what the salary is of Mr. Emery and Mr. Dilbone. These are fairly new postions recently created. What kind of value do these positions add to the school system, and what kind of payback do we as taxpayers expect to get for the cost of their salary.

No ones’ hourly rate, gross pay or salary seemed out of line to me. You’ve got to pay well enough to keep good people in these important jobs.

Publishing teachers’ salaries seems a bit nosy, but as public employees we have a right to know. Arguments about teachers’ salaries will likely intensify as our economy declines. I do wish someone would figure out how to fairly compensate teachers for their performance in the classroom. Perhaps such a system exists, but I haven’t seen it.

i hope you will publish all of the teacher’s salaries by name and provide their effective hourly rates … 180 days times 8 hours is an annual amount of 1,440 hours versus the standard of 40 hours per week for 52 weeks of 2,080 hours. A teacher making $60,000 is making $41.66 per hour plus a very rich benefit plan.

Interested Observer