How much does Eagle pay city employees? Search our 2023 salary database
The city of Eagle has 77 employees. They make from $16 an hour to nearly $65 an hour.
The highest-paid employee is Planning and Zoning Director William Vaughan, a full-time worker who was hired in 1996 and makes $64.44 an hour, or over $134,000 annually, according to payroll data.
Long-Range Planning and Parks Director Nichoel Baird-Spencer makes $57.03 an hour, or $118,000 per year, also full time, the second highest salary at City Hall. She was hired in 2004.
The lowest-paid employee is Parks Public Works Technician Jon Thomas, who makes $16 an hour, or $33,000 per year.
Eagle’s full-time mayor, Jason Pierce, makes $36.69 an hour, over $76,000 annually.
The average pay is $27.19 an hour, equivalent to over $56,000 a year for a full-time city employee.
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.
