How much do city workers make in this Boise suburb? Search our Eagle employee database
What kinds of jobs does the city of Eagle have, and how much do its employees earn?
The Idaho Statesman has compiled a searchable database of Eagle workers’ wages, including the mayor and departments such as Planning and Zoning, Public Works, and the library.
The third-largest city in Ada County, Eagle has just over 36,000 residents, according to 2024 data from the Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho.
Eagle’s 87 city employees earn an average of $29.70 per hour, according to data provided by the City Clerk’s Office on Nov. 12.
The city did not provide data on employees’ annual salaries but noted that full-time, exempt employees work 2,080 hours per year. The Statesman was able to calculate annual salaries for the city’s 15 exempt employees, which mostly include department directors.
William Vaughan, the director of planning and zoning, has the city’s highest hourly pay rate, earning $66.72 per hour, or a calculated annual salary of almost $139,000. Other high-paid officials include the director of long-range planning, Nichoel Baird-Spencer, who earns $59.17 per hour, or $123,000 per year.
Mayor Brad Pike, the only elected official on the city’s payroll, has the thirteenth-highest hourly rate in the city, earning $44.61 per hour. His calculated annual salary is just over $92,700 per year.
Eagle contracts with the Ada County Sheriff’s Office for its police work, meaning Eagle police wages can be found in the Ada County payroll database.
Search the pay of Eagle city employees in the Statesman’s database here:
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.
