Here is a site to find out the information. http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/

 

Can someone please explain something to me though.

The Cleveland Police Chief in 2009 made $122,042.00

The following year he made $336,535.00

I couldn't find that.  What did you input as your search variables?

^ Just go to Local Salary and put "McGrath" for last name.

You dont have to put anything else, and it often messes up the search if you do.

If you want though you can pick the City of Cleveland for the jurisdiction. That will narrow it down a bit

30 seconds of Googling:

 

http://www.19actionnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=13446144

That story only gets you to ~$200k assuming a healthy raise for 2010.  Plus, pensions shouldn't even be in this salary figure.  So, still funny business or bad data going on there.

There will be some inflated salaries in the safety forces for these next few upcoming years due to participation in the DROP program, which was signed by Gov. Taft, with bi-partisan support, and was intended for the benefit of not just the participants but also their employers.   

 

http://www.op-f.org/membersreport/default.asp?id=062002

http://www.op-f.org/drop/

 

Oh yeah.... McGrath is not a "public employee" as that term is defined by the Ohio Collective Bargaining Act and has no rights to collectively bargain.  He is an appointed official and serves at the pleasure of the Safety Director.  He is not covered by SB5, just in case you were curious.

That story only gets you to ~$200k assuming a healthy raise for 2010.  Plus, pensions shouldn't even be in this salary figure.  So, still funny business or bad data going on there.

 

I'm betting in addition to the pension (which likely isn't included) he may have gotten paid for his accumulated sick days (I believe they call that "severance" for government employees who retire).

 

Or it may be what Hts said.

 

Or it may be both.

 

Regardless, yeah, the double-dipping has to go.

Agreed with the double dipping.  That is usually (if not always) done by management-level and elected officials, not those evil a-holes who make up the public employee unions.

 

Sick time cash-out for McGrath is probably a good bet..... plus deferred compensation.

Yeah, the sick days thing crossed my mind for a moment earlier.  Again, that would lead me to what I would call bad data, as it's still not salary.

 

Double dipping to come back to the same job just seem silly.  Go out and find the future Chief of Police and hire McGrath on for a couple years in a consultant/transition capacity.  But that all goes to the toilet when you get politics involved and the next mayor wants his guy/gal.  I was so pissed when my old County Sheriff was deposed by random dude that decided to not run as an independent but as the prevailing county party.

Yeah, the sick days thing crossed my mind for a moment earlier.  Again, that would lead me to what I would call bad data, as it's still not salary.

 

Keep in mind that the data is on the Buskeye Institute website.  They will bend and twist and contort it every which way to try to make government employees look bad.  For instance, they will report a teacher who makes $50k as making ~$90k, as they "extrapolate to a full-time salary" (their words not mine) or something along those lines.