How much does Nampa pay its city officials? Search our 2024 employee salary database
The city of Nampa has nearly 800 employees.
Who makes the most money? The chief of police, Joe Huff, earns about $185,000 per year.
How about the least? That would be some part-time employees at the Nampa Recreation Center who are paid hourly, making at least $14.56 an hour (though some fitness instructors there make much more).
The Idaho Statesman has compiled the latest data on Nampa workers’ salaries, including the Mayor’s Office, the City Council, the Police Department, and Planning and Zoning.
According to data provided by the City Clerk’s Office on Dec. 12, Nampa city employees earn roughly $57,900 a year on average, less than their counterparts in nearby cities like Caldwell and Meridian.
Eight of Nampa’s top-10-highest earners work in the Police Department — also similar to high-earners in Caldwell and Meridian. But in Nampa, the second-highest paid employee is Thomas Points, the senior director of public works.
Mayor Deborah Kling is the 45th-highest paid in the city, with an annual salary of just over $110,500.
In total, Nampa’s payroll for its almost 800 employees is $45.4 million.
Search city employees and their pay in the Statesman’s Nampa salary database below:
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.
