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Highest-paid Polk County employees include four elected officials

Posted Oct 30, 2009 by Dennis Joyce

Updated Oct 30, 2009 at 10:56 PM

A list we just acquired of Polk County government salaries shows four of the top 10 highest-paid employees are constitutional officers, with their salaries and raises set by the state Legislature.

They are Sheriff Grady Judd, Tax Collector Joseph Tedder, Property Appraiser Marsha Shields and Court Clerk Richard Weiss.

By comparison, none of the Top 10 highest-paid employees in more populous Hillsborough County is a constitutional officer.

Among the others in Polk’s Top 10, four received no pay raise since we last requested the county’s payroll at the end of 2008. Two – a doctor and a lawyer, Ernesto Aguilera in risk management and Deputy County Attorney Linda McKinley – got raises in the neighborhood of $5,000.

See more of Polk County’s 3,500 employee salaries, as well as the current salaries of Lakeland city employees, at our database, “Who’s On Your Payroll?”

And stay tuned here for a comparison of local government administrators’ salaries, plus the current figures for Florida state employees – nearly 130,000 of them.