Riverside’s highest-paid employees in 2018: Payroll Project

Editor’s note: The Dayton Daily News is gathering payroll data for local governments across our region, as well as state government and higher education, as part of our Payroll Project. You can search Payroll Project data here. We are gathering payroll data for 2018 and will add it to the database as it is collected. If you have a suggestion for our Payroll Project, email Dayton Daily News reporter Josh Sweigart at Josh.Sweigart@coxinc.com.

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Only one employee of the city of Riverside was paid more than $100,000 in 2018, according to the Dayton Daily News Payroll Project searchable database of public employees.

That individual was City Manager Mark Carpenter, who made $102,000 in 2018. Three police sergeants came close to breaking the $100,000 threshold with the help of overtime pay that boosted their individual salaries over $16,500 apiece.

The city paid $188,616 in overtime wages in 2018, with $52,027 of that going to the three highest-paid police sergeants.

Of Riverside’s 10 highest-paid employees, nine of them work in the city’s fire or police departments.

Local governments make payroll with your money, which is why the Dayton Daily News has assembled and made available a searchable database of pay for public employees.

Riverside’s 10 highest-paid employees in 2018 were:

1. Mark Carpenter, city manager: $102,000

2. David Crigler, police sergeant: $99,624

3. Michael Safriet, police sergeant: $98,692

4. James Vance Jr., police sergeant: $96,115

5. Frank Robinson, police chief: $93,870

6. Daniel Stitzel, fire chief: $87,026

7. Angela Jackson, police sergeant: $86,859

8. Adam Colon, police major: $83,824

9. Matthew Sturgeon, police major: $83,824

10. James Hart, battalion chief: $83,367

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