How much does Nampa pay city employees? Search our 2023 salary database
The city of Nampa has 728 employees among the Mayor’s Office, Parks and Recreation and all the departments in between.
The highest-paid employee is Nampa Police Chief Joe Huff, who was hired in 1993 and makes $168,000 annually. The Deputy Police Chief, Curtis Shankel, hired in 1998, makes $155,000 annually. Shankel is the second-highest-paid employee at the city.
Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling makes a little over $100,000 annually. Nampa City Council Members are part-time employees and make nearly $11,000 annually.
The lowest-paid employees are Nampa Recreation Center assistants, who make $14 an hour, and Nampa Recreation customer service representatives, who make $14.24 an hour.
The average salary of all employees is $51,724 annually.
Below is a searchable database showing the salaries of all city employees as of May 2023. Some searches will contain multiple pages of results.
The Idaho Statesman obtained this data through a public records request. Here’s how and why we did it:
BEHIND THE STORY
MOREWhy did we make this public?
Public employees work for taxpayers. Their salaries and wages are public information.
Idaho state employee pay has been publicly available on various websites, including the Idaho Statesman’s, for years. But there hasn’t always been an easy way to see what Treasure Valley’s local governments pay their employees.
We believe there is value in opening the curtains to show how governments spend taxpayer money. Not only can that sunshine help prevent and catch fraud, waste and abuse, it lets us see how wages differ between, and within, the many offices of our local governments.
Have an idea for another database? Think we should make more information public? Contact us at newsroom@idahostatesman.com or tips@idahostatesman.com.
How did we get the data?
We requested payroll data from local governments in May 2023.
What's the fine print?
First, this is a snapshot in time. Employees are hired, fired, promoted and given raises every day.
Second, employees aren’t all paid the same way. For the most part, you can figure out an employee’s annual pay by multiplying their hourly rate by 2,080. But that’s not always true. Some employees are part-time. Some, like council members, are paid a set amount. Others work more hours than normal and/or get overtime — emergency first responders especially — so their annual pay may be higher than their hourly rate would suggest.
Finally, the “hire date” isn’t necessarily the date that person first joined the ranks of public servants. Some employees are seasonal, temporary or took other jobs between stints working for the city or county.
This story was originally published June 14, 2023 at 4:00 AM.
