What The Employees Earn: Granville Public Library
This is the fourth of a four-part series about the costs of employees in our four government entities: the Village, the Township, the Schools, and the Library. There has been concern recently over the size of raises for Granville Village workers, a four-year contract for the school superintendent, and upcoming negotiations on the teachers’ contract. The data in this series will help understand the reasons for pay raises, even in these troubled economic times.
The other stories in this series:
What The Employees Earn: Granville Village What The Employees Earn: Granville Township What The Employees Earn: Granville Public Schools
According to figures supplied by the Library’s Director, Nadine Robson, the Library paid approximately $467,075 in total gross wages in 2008.
Note: Shown in the table below is the Total Gross pay for each employee. Some of the listed employees have resigned or retired and others began work at different times during the year. Full-time employees work a minimum of 38 hours per week. Part-time Administrative and Library Clerks work between 15 and 27 hours per week.
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The total gross pay of all employees of the Granville Public Library for 2008 was $467,075. This number does not include the Library’s costs for Social Security and Medicare, health insurance, retirement benefits and other employee related expenses. The Temporary Pages work 10 hours per week.
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I don't mean on this
I don’t mean on this website. I realize it’s public information, but you’re just stirring the pot.
(Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.)
Okay, Mr. Editor/owner. How
Okay, Mr. Editor/owner. How much do you make?
(Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.)
The answer
$0.
That’s right. Well, not quite right. He actually loses money on it as he pays for internet bandwidth, web servers, and various other costs out of his own pocket.
The Granville Press was started by a group of people who felt the community needed more than one source of information; that a diversity of perspectives was important; that a locally controlled news resource was critical to the community. Making money was not one of the goals (you may have noticed both the complete lack of paid advertising and the low rate of your subscription cost).
Trust me. The editor is a bright guy. If he wanted to make money he would have chosen something other than the now almost universally money-losing business of news.
But that said, the editor through his long-term commitment to the project has been earning much more. He has earned the gratitude of many of us for his service to the community.
Remember we would have not known about the attempt to bring Pataskala sewer deep into Granville Township without his work (the other news resource studiously avoided bringing this serious risk of unconstrained development to the attention of its readers). We would not have known that the trustee’s preferred version of the new comprehensive plan would lead to increased development in the township (amazingly, the other news resource in town actually ran a front page story the other week incorrectly stating the trustees new plan was going to increase protection of the township).
The Press' owner isn't a public employee
and therefore he salary isn’t any of your business.
If you choose to work in government, you’ve got to take the bad (privacy regarding salary) with the good (tenure.)