How much do county officials make in Canyon County? Search our 2024 employee database
Ever wondered how much county officials make in Canyon County?
The Idaho Statesman has compiled the latest data on Canyon County workers’ salaries, including those of the Board of Commissioners and at the Sheriff’s Office.
According to data provided by the county on Dec. 5, the highest-paid county employee is Joseph Kronz, a pathologist in the coroner’s office, earning just over $210,000 per year — more than the coroner herself.
Two elected officials, Prosecutor Bryan Taylor and Sheriff Kieran Donahue, are the second- and third-highest earning county workers, with annual salaries of about $173,000 and $165,000, respectively.
The county’s three commissioners — Leslie Van Beek, Brad Holton, and Zach Brooks — each earn just over $118,000 a year.
Other departments included in the data are the Assessor’s Officer, the County Clerk’s Office and the Treasurer’s Office.
Canyon County is the second-largest county in Idaho, after Ada County. Located west of Ada County, Canyon County’s largest city is Nampa. It also encompasses Caldwell, Middleton, Wilder, Notus, Parma, Melba and Greenleaf.
Search the pay of Canyon County’s 879 employees with the Statesman’s salary database below.
Canyon County salary database
Note: “Regular pay rate amount” is the amount that employees make based on their regular rate. For salaried employees, this amount is their biweekly pay, while for hourly employees, this is their hourly rate.
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.
