How much do county officials make in Canyon County? Search our 2025 pay database
The Boise area has drawn attention in recent years for its explosive population growth — and all the challenges and opportunities that come with it.
But a little further west of Idaho’s capital city and its most populous county, the state’s second-largest county is growing even faster. From 2020 to 2025, Canyon County grew by 19.3%, according to estimates from the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho, or Compass. That outpaced neighboring Ada County’s 15.6%.
Together, nine cities in Canyon County boast nearly 276,000 people, Compass estimates — more than double the county’s population at the start of the century. The largest city is Nampa, with over 123,000 people. The second-largest city, Caldwell, ranks among the nation’s fastest-growing cities, according to the Idaho Department of Labor in May.
Have you ever wondered about the people managing that growth and keeping the county operating? What about how much those officials earn?
The Idaho Statesman has compiled the latest data on Canyon County workers’ wages, including officials on the Board of Commissioners and in the Sheriff’s Office.
Excluding a few employees listed in the data as earning no wage, Canyon County’s 881 paid employees earn on average just shy of $68,000 per year, according to data provided by the county on Dec. 30.
The highest-paid county employee is Joseph Kronz, a pathologist in the coroner’s office, earning just over $211,000 per year. That’s nearly double what the county coroner, Jennifer Crawford, makes.
Kronz is followed by Kenneth Jorgensen, a deputy prosecuting attorney who earns $100 per hour, or $208,000 per year. Two elected officials, Prosecutor Bryan Taylor and Sheriff Kieran Donahue, are the third- and fourth-highest earning county workers, with annual salaries of about $173,000 and $165,000, respectively.
In the Sheriff’s Office, 261 employees earn on average about $75,300 a year. But that’s not accounting for overtime, which can bump up deputies’ pay, sometimes significantly, the data showed.
Randi Reamer, a deputy sheriff hired in 2000, earned over $42,000 in overtime pay in fiscal year 2025. His annual salary before overtime: $89,800.
Overall, the county spent over $1 million on overtime pay in fiscal year 2025 — $758,000 of which went to employees in the Sheriff’s Office. Besides the Sheriff’s Office, some county officials earned large overtime compensations in the Solid Waste Disposal, Juvenile Center and Dispatch departments.
Other offices or departments included in the data are the Assessor’s Office, the County Clerk’s Office and the Canyon County Courthouse.
Search the pay of Canyon County’s employees with the Statesman’s salary database below. (If your device doesn’t display the search fields, click here.)
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 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 and overtime data from local governments in December 2025.
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, especially emergency first responders like firefighters and police officers, can work nontraditional hours and/or get overtime. Their annual pay may be higher — in some cases much 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 January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM.
