What does the Ada County Highway District pay its staff? Search our database
The Ada County Highway District employed 455 people in 2025, with full-time staff earning anywhere from below $40,000 a year to north of $200,000.
Not including overtime, the average ACHD take-home was $74,302 in fiscal 2025, or $35.72 per hour. Most employees made less than that, though: The median pay stood at $66,476, or $31.96 per hour. The median is the midpoint between the highest- and lowest-paid workers. The average was pulled up by higher-paid workers.
Records ACHD provided in response to a public records request by the Idaho Statesman found that 60 ACHD employees made more than $100,000 annually. One, longtime General Counsel Steven Price, earned more than $200,000. Price’s $211,619 salary led the agency. The three lowest-paid staff members, all of whom started in 2025, earned $39,312, or $18.90 an hour.
ACHD Director Ryan Head earned $196,290.
Search the pay of ACHD’s full-time city employees in the Statesman’s database below. (If your device doesn’t display the search fields, click here.) The database does not include overtime pay.
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.
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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.