ELIZABETHTOWN — Elected officials, department heads and management-confidential employees in Essex County have been given 2 percent pay hikes for 2013.
County Manager Daniel Palmer said the County Board of Supervisors exempted itself from the raises.
“The Board of Supervisors salary remains at the same level that it has been for the last four years. They (supervisors) reduced department-head raises to 2 percent, and they reduced all rank-and-file management-confidential employees to 2 percent; they were originally put in the tentative budget at 3 percent.”
Unionized workers at the county are not in the budget for raises in 2013. A new Civil Service Employees Association contract is being negotiated now to replace one that expired in 2012. Members have worked under the provisions of that agreement since then.
No one from the public spoke at a public hearing Monday, Dec. 31, on the segment of the raises that are set by local law.
SALARIES AND PAY RATES
The new department head and management-confidential salaries for 2013 will be:
▶ County manager certified public accountant/purchasing agent, $74,356.
▶ County manager senior purchasing clerk, $20.32 per hour.
▶ Deputy county auditor, $39,769.
▶ Information Systems deputy director, $32.97 per hour.
▶ District attorney’s secretary, $22.43 per hour.
▶ Assistant district attorneys (five), $82,507; $53,346; $52,300; $69,117; $57,607.
▶ Deputy clerk of the Board of Supervisors, $20.59 per hour.
▶ Deputy county treasurer (two), $48,960; $42,840.
▶ Real Property Tax Services assistant director, $28.91 per hour.
▶ Deputy county clerk (three), $26.69 per hour.
▶ Department of Motor Vehicles supervisor (two), $20.32 per hour.
• Assistant county attorney, $74,757.
▶ Assistant county attorney for Family Court, $37,379.
▶ Assistant county attorney for Social Services, $37,379.
▶ County attorney secretary/paralegal, $22.43 per hour.
▶ Public defender, $93,840.
▶ Assistant public defender (two), $59,160; $53,040.
▶ Public defender’s confidential secretary, $22.43 per hour.
▶ Public defender investigator, $20.40 per hour.
▶ Deputy personnel officer, $22.43 per hour.
▶ Deputy election commissioner (two), $16.40 per hour.
▶ Election clerk/technician (two), $14.50 per hour.
▶ Public Works deputy superintendent, $56,100.
▶ Public Works assistant civil engineer (two), $53,188; $51,000.
▶ County Jail/Public Safety Building coordinator, $26.69 per hour.
▶ County safety officer, $24.07 per hour.
▶ County printing operator, $22.04 per hour.
▶ County undersheriff, $29.19 per hour.
▶ County chief deputy sheriff, $27.23 per hour.
▶ County sheriff’s confidential secretary, $20.32 per hour.
▶ County Jail administrator, $27.30 per hour.
▶ County Jail assistant administrator, $25.31 per hour.
▶ County probation director, $70,250.
▶ County Emergency Services director, $75,424.
▶ Deputy Emergency Services director, $58,484.
▶ County Public Health supervising nurse (two), $33.68 per hour; $27.54 per hour.
▶ County Public Health director of patient services, $35.62 per hour.
▶ County Public Health director of Children With Special Needs, $29.08 per hour.
▶ County Public Health director preventive services, $33.37 per hour.
▶ County Public Health program coordinator, $28.94 per hour
▶ Community Mental Health Services director, $82,620.
▶ Community Mental Health Services assistant director, $37.85 per hour.
▶ Mental Health staff psychiatrist, $101.39 per hour.
▶ Mental Health medical director, $101.26 per hour.
▶ Mental Health supervising psychiatric social worker (two), $38.48 per hour; $33.38 per hour.
▶ County Social Services director, $28.91 per hour.
▶ County Social Services confidential secretary, $20.32 per hour.
▶ County Social Services head welfare examiner, $25.84 per hour.
▶ County Social Services staff development director, $24.52 per hour.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home administrator, $81,919.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home nursing director, $31.91 per hour.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home MDS coordinator, $30.39 per hour.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home medical director, $88,101.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home food services director, $26.69 per hour.
▶ Horace Nye Nursing Home supervising nurse (three), $26.06 per hour.
▶ County Weights and Measures director, $45,761 (plus $15,000 for occupancy-tax enforcement).
▶ County Office for the Aging director, $55,403.
▶ County Community Resources deputy planner, $24.53 per hour.
▶ County transportation coordinator, $26.69 per hour.
▶ County Fish Hatchery director, $65,281.
SET BY LAW
Salaries of some elected officials and top department heads are set by local law:
▶ County manager, $98,615 (plus $19,515 as information systems director; no raises).
▶ Social Services commissioner, $86,619.
▶ Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, $53,000 (reduction from $66,000 due to promotion of deputy).
▶ Election commissioners (two), $17,962.
▶ County coroners (four), $3,983.
▶ County attorney, $130,248.
▶ County auditor, $57,790.
▶ County clerk, $67,143.
▶ County sheriff, $81,168.
▶ County treasurer, $66,631.
▶ County personnel officer, $60,794.
▶ Public defender, $93,840.
▶ Public Health director, $79,560.
▶ Real Property Tax Services director, $62,809.
▶ Public Works superintendent, $87,361.
▶ County Community Resources director, $59,160.
▶ Board of Supervisors (16), $17,855 each (no raise).
▶ Chair, Board of Supervisors, $23,009 (no raise).
▶ Budget liaison officer, Board of Supervisors, $20,021 (no raise).
Each supervisor also receives a salary from the town in which he or she serves.
Two county salaries are set by the state:
▶ County judge, $140,300.
▶ District attorney, $140,300.
Email Lohr McKinstry: lmckinstry@pressrepublican.com
