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projo.com Public Payroll: Local, state government employs 1 in 6 workers in Rhode Island

Under the state's Access to Public Records Act, The Journal obtained a roster of state employees in June 2007 to take a closer look at the cost of state government, as state leaders were debating issues such as state employee layoffs and the privatizing of some state jobs.

In a separate public records request, The Journal received records that show actual earnings, including overtime, plus the cost of benefits, for each state employee.

And late last summer, The Providence Journal requested name, job description and pay information for municipal employees in each of the state's 39 cities and towns and its 36 municipal school districts.

These stories and charts present The Journal's analysis of this data, led by staff writer Paul Edward Parker.

SOURCE: Analysis of data from 39 R.I. municipalities and 4 regional school districts by Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker.

School chiefs dominate ranks of highest-paid municipal employees

3.09.08

Firefighters in Providence and school superintendents statewide dominate the list of the highest-paid municipal employees in Rhode Island, a Providence Journal analysis of municipal pay information has found.

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Chart: Top 100 highest paid municipal employees statewide

Local, state government
employs 1 in 6 workers in R.I.

2.28.08: Rhode Islanders paid their city and town employees more than $1.6 billion in 2006, a Providence Journal analysis of municipal employee records shows.

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Map: Municipal workers' pay, employee figures, town by town

R.I. ranks 3rd nationally
in fire department payrolls

12.21.07: On a per capita basis, payrolls alone here outstrip the total cost of operating entire departments in most other states.

Chart: Payroll in municipal fire departments in Rhode Island

Salary list only begins to tell the story

Top salaries are
in higher ed

7.29.07: The average state employee has a yearly salary of about $46,600, but a wide range goes into that average, from $1 a year each for two special assistants to Governor Carcieri to $286,840 a year for the men's basketball coach at URI.

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Carothers paid less than peers in region

Overtime swells pay for many

7.30.07: Allan R. LeBeau was paid $214,776.78. That's $88,537.72 in base pay, plus $126,239.06 in overtime. He is a supervising registered nurse at the MHRH division that runs Eleanor Slater Hospital and several group homes.

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Overtime, details add to
troopers pay

8.07.07: State police employees last year added an average of 33 percent of their base pay in overtime and road details, according to figures from the state controller's office. That average represents a range from employees who made only their base pay to three troopers who collected more in overtime and detail pay than in base wages.

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In-paper ads

Cardi's

Benny's

Circulars

projo.com Public Payroll: Local, state government employs 1 in 6 workers in Rhode Island

Municipal Workers' Pay

R.I. ranks 3rd nationally
in fire department payrolls

State Workers' Pay

Salary list only begins to tell the story

Rhode Island's highest
paid state employees

Scheduled salaries

Gross pay

Overtime

Total pay with benefits

Municipal Payrolls, Town by Town

Metro

East Bay

North

South County

West Bay

In-paper ads

Cardi's

Benny's

Circulars

projo.com Public Payroll: Local, state government employs 1 in 6 workers in Rhode Island

Municipal Workers' Pay

R.I. ranks 3rd nationally in fire department payrolls

State Workers' Pay

Salary list only begins to tell the story

Rhode Island's highest paid state employees

Scheduled salaries

Gross pay

Overtime

Total pay with benefits

Municipal Payrolls, Town by Town

Metro

East Bay

North

South County

West Bay

R.I. ranks 3rd nationally
in fire department payrolls

Rhode Island's highest
paid state employees