In past issues, we have run several stories about pay raises received by the ISS school superintendent and the county manager. In most cases, the salary information was not reported by the mainstream media.

Recently, the Record & Landmark actually did something right. It published an article on the highest-paid local government employees, and posted the salaries of all such employees on its web site.

(The article did reveal the newspaper’s liberal slant by whining that the highest paid local government employees did not precisely reflect the ethnic and gender makeup of the county.)

Mitchell Community College President Doug Eason’s $146,941 salary makes him the top paid local government employee. Iredell County Manager Joel Mashburn, at $141,601, and Iredell-Statesville Schools Superintendent Terry Holliday, at $127,551, are next highest.

Eight local government officials enjoy six-figure salaries, and 17 earn over $90,000. More than 400 are paid in excess of $50,000 per year.

The chart below lists the number of employees of local government entities in various salary ranges. It was compiled from the information on the Record & Landmark web site.