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Use our database to discover the salaries for positions including a parking enforcement specialist, community codes investigator, mayor and police detective.

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By DENNIS JOYCE

The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 23, 2009

TAMPA - Who's on your payroll?

You employ accountants, cashiers, chiefs of all varieties, people in forestry, storm water, and zoning, to name a few.

If you live in the city of Tampa or Hillsborough County, your payroll adds up to as many as 16,000 workers in local government alone.

At a time when public service is under scrutiny like never before, as government at all levels struggles with the nation's economic crisis, you can review the hired help on your own.

Just visit this new database compiled by TBO.com. Here is some of what you'll find.

TOP 5 EARNERS, WITH STARTING DATES

Clearwater

William Horne, city manager, 1988, $161,085

Pamela Akin, city attorney, 1994, $148,694

Rodney Irwin, assistant city manager, 2005, $121,239

Jill Silverboard, assistant city manager, 2007, $120,582

Sidney Klein, police chief, 1981, $116,628

Hillsborough County

Louis Miller, executive director aviation authority, 1996, $253,302

Richard Wainio, deputy port director, 2005, $245,003

Vernard Adams, chief medical examiner, 1991, $244,899

Patricia Bean, county administrator, $221,395, 1977

Alice Lee, county attorney, 2004, $210,142

Lakeland

Douglas Thomas, city manager, 2003, $185,994,

James Stanfield, general manager, 2001, $175,011

Timothy McCausland, city attorney, 1992, $171,496

Alan Shaffer, assistant general manager – delivery, 1979, $141,419.20

Antonio Candales, assistant general manager – production, 2006, $139,672

Largo

Norton Craig II, city manager, 2000, $145,600

Henry Schubert Jr., assistant city manager, 1980, $124,862

Michael Staffopoulos, assistant city manager, 1999, $116,189

Lester Aradi, police chief, 2001, $115,835

Kimball Adams, finance director, 1987, $113,838

Pasco County

John Gallagher, county administrator, 1982, $180,730

Jeffrey Steinsnyder, county attorney, 2008, $165,000

Daniel Johnson, assistant county administrator, 1977, $137,496

Michael A. Nurrenbrock, office of Management & Budget, 1982, $130,354

Bipinchandr B. Parikh, assistant county administrator, 1983, $128,084

Pinellas County

Robert LaSala, county administrator, 2008, $225,000

Fred Marquis, county administrator, 2007, $200,000

James L. Bennett, county attorney, 1987, $193,015

Mark Stephen Woodard, assistant county administrator, 1988, $174,376

Dennis Long, assistant county attorney, 2003, $169,996

Polk County

Robert Herr, county manager, 1998, $185,343

Michael Craig, county attorney, 2008, $150,000

Ernesto Aguilera, physician, 2006, $142,043

James Freeman, deputy county manager, 1989, $132,288

Linda Mckinley, county attorney, 2000, $130,478

St. Petersburg

Richard M. Baker, Mayor, 2001, $162,314

Goliath Davis III, midtown economic development/deputy mayor, 2001, $156,554

Patricia Elston, city administrator/deputy mayor, 1999, $156,554

John Wolfe, city attorney, 2000, $156,554

Charles Harmon Jr., chief of police, 2001, $156,122

Tampa

Bonnie Moore Wise, finance director, 2003, $160,659

Charles R. Fletcher, city attorney, 2008, $153,754

Stephen William Daignault, administrative public works & utility services, 2004, $153,005

Mark Monte Huey, administrator of economic & urban development, 2003, $153,005

Stephen Hogue, chief of police, 2003, $153,005

Darrell G. Smith, chief of staff, 2003, $153,005

John G. Moors, convention center & tourism director, 2000, $153,005

Santiago C. Corrada, neighborhood services administrator, 2004, $153,005

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