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High Point Pays High Salaries


June 02, 2011
The City of High Point pays high salaries.

The top salaries haven't changed a dollar since last year, but they are still high. Just about the only difference in the list of top wage earners in High Point is that Fire Chief David Taylor retired so he is no longer on the list. Otherwise the top of the list has the same names, the same titles and the same salaries.

But it is interesting when you do a comparison with Greensboro. High Point City Manager Strib Boynton is paid $177,501 to manage a town of 104,000, while Greensboro City Manager Rashad Young is paid $179,500 to manage a town of 266,000.

And it goes right down the line. Greensboro has 30 employees who are paid more than $100,000 a year, and High Point has 29.

High Point Assistant City Manager Pat Pate makes $149,671, just a few hundred dollars less than Greensboro Deputy City Manager Bob Morgan at $149,912, who is retiring in the fall. Next on the list is High Point Assistant City Manager Randy McCaslin at $140,019, while the top paid assistant city managers in Greensboro – Andy Scott and Denise Turner – each make $121,000 a year.

As you go down the list the main difference is that High Point has a lot fewer employees, but the employees in similar jobs seem to be making in the same range, which makes High Point at least seem to be better place to work if you are a supervisor because you are likely to have fewer employees under you, and as any supervisor can tell you, fewer employees means fewer headaches.

The top paid police officers are making in the $60,000 range, and Police Chief Jim Fealy is paid $138,332 a year, which like the other salaries is exactly what he was being paid last year. The new Greensboro Police Chief Ken Miller is paid $137,900. Miller has 747 sworn officers working for him while Fealy has 220.

High Point is an electric city, which means it buys electricity wholesale and sells it to the citizens of High Point. That increases the budget, as well as adds a utility department that cities like Greensboro don't have.

Click here for a PDF list of all High Point city salaries

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    June 02, 2011 | 01:14 PM

    Sounds like better city management and government...
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    Sad but True
    June 02, 2011 | 04:17 PM

    The sad thing is, the City of High Point employees haven't had a salary increase for 3 years, going on 4 and the one's who decide we can't have a raise already make well over $100k a year so it's easy for those folks not to receive increases. However, those of us making under $30k suffer.

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    City Salaries WOW
    June 02, 2011 | 04:54 PM

    Can we deduct the price of Younts' discrimination lawsuit from Strib's salary. What about the perks for Strib, how much do they cost taxpayers? Membership in the country club, String and Splinter, vehicle allowances, etc. Sounds like he just does a better job of snowing the city council than G'boro's manager. Tight economic times for the rest of us but not the city manager or his favored few, looks like to me. No wonder the city is having budget problems. A discriminating city manager must cost more.
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    Decreases Needed
    June 02, 2011 | 07:33 PM

    I one of the JOBLESS in High Point and am making it on close to a third of what I was making. I would like to see the top paid employees of High Point do that! They get paid for running a city, or not running a city, which only benefits their own pockets, while the rest of us stupidly continue to pay their salaries, not like we have a lot of options. I have a friends who was present when Strib Boynton quit his job, but is still getting paid, for quitting. He does not preform his supervisory duties, as a City Manager should, yes, like the fire department mess with OSHA, yet, I am paying for these violations along with other residents. If you are going to work for the city and get paid those top dollars then you should have to produce, some jobs, within the core city, so the lowly of lows can survive your tax increases, tax incentives and roadways that could wait. I guess when the majority of residents in High Point cannot survive and go homeless,those that remain will be taxed into homelessness, too. I do not paying my share, but when I do not have nothing left to give, due to unemployment, then the city should cut expenses and salaries to assist those of us, going back to school on assistance programs, job retraining programs, food stamps, after all pride is all you have left, when you cannot get up and go to work. The city has plenty of pride, that is why they continue to increase our service fees, taxes and layoff employees, but do not adjust salaries of the highest paid, to suffer a little bit with its residents. Common sense would say the more you do the more you should get paid, but if you are not doing the job then, step aside and give someone else a go at it, produce jobs within the city, especially the core city. The city's hiring freeze is stupid, really. The could cut salaries from the top salaries and hire employees at minim wage, or just slightly above minim wage, as a job is still a job, to some of us. We just want to keep our homes and feed our families.

    TheJobless
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    City Employee
    June 03, 2011 | 09:20 AM

    I have to agree with you all! I have worked for High Point for seven years now and I have yet to see and or meet our city manager or his assistants. He's never stepped foot within our department during those seven years. When I worked for another city, our city manager was involved with all department functions and didn't make anywhere near the salary Strib makes. To show the level of importance, uur city council is more worried about hanging colorful flags on poles than worried about the out of control animosity Strib has caused. You see, when the city hits financial trouble, all they have to do is raise the power bills to accomodate and that's simply not fair to the public. Notice, a rate increase on power beginning in June. Hmmmmmm....makes one wonder doesn't it?
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    City Employee2
    June 06, 2011 | 01:12 PM

    I know what you mean about never seeing Strib until Younts filed her discrimination suit we never saw him at the fire stations, now we see him all the time telling us how great we are. We used to be a bunch of lying troublemakers, according to him. Now we are great! What a phony.
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    January 27, 2012 | 01:40 PM

    kelly hewlett making more than her supervisors

    greensboro
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    Furthermore...
    January 31, 2012 | 01:46 PM

    Don't forger all of the "hidden" employees who sponge off of the taxpayers by being in "nonprofits" funded with local tax dollars, and there are a lot of them.

    Observer
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    City pay
    June 05, 2012 | 02:31 PM

    I have to comment on this article because I retired from the Police Dept. We did not have any raises the past 4 years, our Insurance (sub-par)rates went up each year and now I work another job, because for an individual the Health Insurance is $550 month. I and many others (Police & Fire)chose to work nights, weekends, holidays,inclement weather, miss childrens school events, ball games, birthdays, etc....to help protect the residents of High Point. Yes at times we may have been over paid because things were slow, but when you are doing things like arresting drunk drivers, going into homes on domestic situations, responding to armed robberies, fires, suicidal subjects, or doing Crack house raids, just to name a few, then we were grossly underpaid during those events. For those who complain, I suggest you do a "Police" ridealong or attend the Police or Fire Citizen Academies and walk in the shoes of a City Employee who dedicates his/her life /career to Public Safety.
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    City Pay
    June 06, 2012 | 01:07 AM

    Strib Boynton visited our Department several times, supported us and actually knew my name and called me by name in the grocery store and restaurants.I was impressed that he knew so many people. Yes he is paid more then the GBORO manager (who is new)compared to Strib's 30 years. I will always remember and appreciate him, that he and the Police Chief came to the hospital when I was injured in the line of duty. (after 5 p.m. also)!!!!!
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