Payroll Project: Springfield’s highest-paid employees

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

Politics
By Katie Wedell
April 26, 2016
X

Springfield had nine employees pulling in salaries of more than $100,000 each in 2015. That's up from six employees who made that much in 2014, according to according to a searchable database of local government payroll assembled by the I-Team.

The city of just under 60,000 had 334 employees who made more than $50,000 last year out of 567 total employees (including seasonal and part-time).

According to the data, the five highest-paid Springfield employees last year were:

1. City Manager Jim Bodenmiller: $150,310.

2. Chief Building Officer Roger Mick: $122,615.

3. Law Director Jerry Strozdas: $116,302.

4. Assistant City Manager and Economic Development Director Tom Franzen: $111,765.

5. Deputy Law Director Andrew Burkholder: $111,241.

The top five is unchanged from 2014 except for Mick, who made about $70,000 in base salary and then was paid $59,357 in unused vacation and sick leave upon his retirement.

>> RELATED: Payroll Project: News Carlisle's highest-paid employees

Rounding out the $100K club were:
6. Police Chief Stephen Moody: $104,495.
7. Fire Chief Nicholas Heimlich: $104,469.
8. Service Director Chris Moore: $101,936.
9. Director of Finance Mark Beckdahl: $100,918.
Moody retired in December but didn’t get any sort of payout in 2015, according to Bodenmiller. He was rehired in March at a lower salary of $83,490 annually.

Local governments make payroll with your money. That's why the I-Team is using Ohio public records laws to assemble and analyze payroll data for governments across our region.

Go here for a growing database of government employees who made more than $50,000 in gross compensation last year and in 2014.

In Other News
1
Area rep’s bill would require parental consent for youth mental health...
2
GOP bill to ban DEI, faculty strikes in public higher ed headed to...
3
Turner troubled by high-level text chat on U.S. strikes in Yemen
4
Ohio House passes bill nixing replacement property tax levies
5
Area Reps. Davidson, Jordan back Trump call to impeach federal judges

About the Author

Katie Wedell