http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : City Council : City has over 500 Employees Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:36:08 +0000 Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:53:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5887 http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43956&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43956 Author: jag123
Subject: 5887
Posted: Nov 01 2014 at 7:53pm

Please remember that a lot of these 500 employees are seasonal workers only working a few months a year.
]]> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:53:11 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43956&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43956 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43955&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43955 Author: middletownscouter
Subject: 5887
Posted: Oct 31 2014 at 4:47pm

Pulled the list from the website down to excel and looked at the numbers a bit. Here's some interesting analysis data for you all:

Overall, there were 523 employees who received wages in 2013 from the City of Middletown. The lowest payout was $249.66 and the highest was $135,350.72. Average was $44,742.19 and median was $46,938.31. The grand total of wages paid out was $23,400,163.69.

$100K+ Employees: Ten employees (1.9% of all employees) were paid over $100k. Ms. Gilleland was the highest paid by over $20,000 more than the next highest paid employee. The other 9 all ranged within $13.5k of each other. Of those ten $100k+ employees, 8 were from the public safety sector (5 on the police side, 3 on the fire side), with the other two being the former City Manager and the last being the Law Director Mr. Landen. The top highest paid employees accounted for $1,104,986.14, or 4.7% of the total wages paid out in 2013.

To look at the opposite end of the spectrum, there were 20 employees (3.8% of all employees) whose earnings were less than $1,000.00 each. These bottom 20 wages combined for $13,457.67, or 0.06% of total wages paid.

Including those 20 employees paid less than $1k, there were 113 employees (21.6% of all employees) whose wages were under $10k. Their combined wages accounted for $400,806.19, or 1.71% of all wages paid. That group includes all of the city council members.

File I made is attached.CoM-SalData-2013.zip]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:47:48 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43955&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43955 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43954&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43954 Author: VietVet
Subject: 5887
Posted: Oct 31 2014 at 11:59am

Not to mention, we have found out Police Lt Cunningham is making over $95 thou a year plus the cost of his benefits package. Factor in all the other Lt's. Captains, Majors, Assist Chiefs, Chiefs and Directors , Managers, Supervisors and assistants to the assistants in the city building, the city is buried in high salaries and benny packages plus the cost of retirements.......huge chunk of change to cover all of this and appears to be a prime culprit for a cash strapped city to handle. It appears we could easily be monetarily overloaded in top-heavy papershuffling positions that may, or may not be needed. Does the city have an evaluation system that periodically audits whether current positions are really needed or not or are assessments made "just at the whim of the city manager if they think about it"?

Realizing Cunningham has over 26 years of service and has built up to a higher level of pay, it still is hard to imagine a middle range police position making almost a hundred grand. For whatever reason, just seems a tad bit high. Just have a position like his pegged for around 70-80 grand at most and that may be a high assessment.

Do these positions earn a once a year pay raise based on merit, or are these positions given numerous step increases within a year's time? Wonder what Cunningham's raises have been percentage-wise over the years? If comparable to the private sector lately, it would have been 0 to around 3% per year.


Bottom line....Apparently, the city isn't tapped out as yet. Occasionally, I read in the city work book where the city hires through the back door while telling the public they are too poor to afford the correct number in the fire department. Perhaps they should stop paying Lt's 95 thou a year and start freeing up money to put more officers and firemen out in the field.

]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:59:55 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43954&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43954 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5887&PID=43953&title=city-has-over-500-employees#43953 Author: John Beagle
Subject: 5887
Posted: Oct 31 2014 at 10:09am

Middletown paid just over 500 employees, the top paid was then-city manager Judy Gillieland, who retired at the end of the year and was replaced with Doug Adkins earlier this year. Gillieland earned $135,350. In all, 10 employees earned more than $100,000, many associated with its law enforcement or criminal investigation services.

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/news/2014/10/30/city-of-middletown-public-employee-pay-database.html

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