District's Community Funding & Payrolls
Projo's Meaghan Wims has a must-read article today. She's got payroll numbers, employee data, population & income figures. 70% of Middletown school funding is local- more than I thought. Whatever happened to the State's promise years ago for picking up 60% of costs in exchange for our givingthem more of our tax $ & giving up some ability to tax. 80% of that is for salaries/benefits. To be expected, I think, since schools consist primarily of instructors and are a service-oriented expenditure.
There are 314 part-timers on the municipal side with 150 full time personnel. The summertime adds another 323 part-timers earning less than $11,000/ea. to the payroll. "The highest-paid seasonal workers, Harbormaster Stephen Ponte, also principal of Forest Avenue Elementary School, and beach manager Morrie Seiple, made $13,170 and $21,500, respectively, in 2006." The Harbormaster's position is new. It used to be a function of the police dept.
"On the municipal side, the bulk of the town’s payroll — 19 percent — goes to the town’s police officers and firefighters."
The average full-time salary is $58,492, states Sean Brown but I am unclear as to where/what population number he bases this on. The median household income (the number right in the middle with an equal number of incomes above & below) is $59,758. The average full-time salary for a town employee (one person) is $62,759 & $53,136 for school personnel. Remember, all these monies are not strictly from local taxation. State funds, grants, fees, etc. also figure into total available funding.
East Bay communities offering a lower FTE non-school salary than the town's median income are: Tiverton, Portsmouth, Little Compton, Bristol, and Barrington (with a median household income of almost $90,000). Newport's median income is the second lowest at $47,583 with the highest FTE of $61,910. Uh-oh. "The median household income offers a possible measure of the citizens’ ability to pay their municipal workers."
Communities offering a lower FTE school salary are all except Newport & Barrington.
Check it out.
There are 314 part-timers on the municipal side with 150 full time personnel. The summertime adds another 323 part-timers earning less than $11,000/ea. to the payroll. "The highest-paid seasonal workers, Harbormaster Stephen Ponte, also principal of Forest Avenue Elementary School, and beach manager Morrie Seiple, made $13,170 and $21,500, respectively, in 2006." The Harbormaster's position is new. It used to be a function of the police dept.
"On the municipal side, the bulk of the town’s payroll — 19 percent — goes to the town’s police officers and firefighters."
The average full-time salary is $58,492, states Sean Brown but I am unclear as to where/what population number he bases this on. The median household income (the number right in the middle with an equal number of incomes above & below) is $59,758. The average full-time salary for a town employee (one person) is $62,759 & $53,136 for school personnel. Remember, all these monies are not strictly from local taxation. State funds, grants, fees, etc. also figure into total available funding.
East Bay communities offering a lower FTE non-school salary than the town's median income are: Tiverton, Portsmouth, Little Compton, Bristol, and Barrington (with a median household income of almost $90,000). Newport's median income is the second lowest at $47,583 with the highest FTE of $61,910. Uh-oh. "The median household income offers a possible measure of the citizens’ ability to pay their municipal workers."
Communities offering a lower FTE school salary are all except Newport & Barrington.
Check it out.
4 comments:
Too bad it was not broken down by family. I think you'd find the Rodrigues and extended family survives on the tax payer! Just look Paul Rodrigues sister at the senior center and Paul's brother who makes more as a janitor than most teachers!
That's not the only family like that.
I recently visited Town Hall and researched the salaries of the town hall union employees, the "clerks" (spoke with some personally) and you'll be surprised, with the qualifications that are being required (experience & college degrees) these employees are making between $35,000-42,000 a year, not including the health insurance copays. And they work throught the summer months, therefore unable to work another job during those months to gain additional income. Maybe Ms. Wims should interview these hardworking individuals herself.
Most working in Town Hall aren't earning a heckuva lot & I wouldn't be at all surprised at their qualifications. I know many myself.
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