The county had three employees who made salaries of more than $100,000 each in 2015, including Evans, the same as in 2014, according to a searchable database of local government payroll assembled by the I-Team.
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With a population of just less than 39,000, Champaign County had 57 employees who made more than $50,000 last year out of 386 total employees, including seasonal and part-time.
According to the data, the five highest-paid Champaign County employees last year were:
1. Department of Job and Family Services Director Susan Bailey-Evans: $156,387.
2. Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services Board of Logan and Champaign Counties Executive Director David Higgins: $109,981.
3. County Prosecutor Kevin Talebi: $104,135.
4. Highway Maintenance Supervisor Ted Black: $88,900.
5. County Engineer Stephen McCall: $85,354.
Local governments make payroll with your money. That's why the I-Team is using Ohio public records laws to assemble and analyze payroll data for governments across our region.
Go here for a growing database of government employees who made more than $50,000 in gross compensation last year and in 2014.
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