Here Are The Government Employees Who Work In Kenosha County And How Much They Make

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In the spirit of transparency, Kenosha County Eye requested salary information from the following government agencies in late 2024:

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Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD)
City of Kenosha
County of Kenosha

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Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office
Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office

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Village of Paddock Lake
Village of Pleasant Prairie
Village of Twin Lakes
Village of Salem Lakes
Village of Somers

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Town of Randall
Town of Wheatland

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Westosha Central High School
Trevor-Wilmot School District
Twin Lakes School District
Wilmot Union High School
Riverview Salem Silver Lakes Silver Lakes School District
UW Parkside
Gateway Techincal College

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Circuit Court Judges are not included in this list, but make $174,512.

Below is a database I created for searching and sorting salaries. You can also click here for a full-page version.
Jurisdictions that are missing from this tool will be added in the coming days and weeks.

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  1. So to confirm- the “long standing detective “ on full paid leave for several months is making $44.34 per hour sitting at home, not allowed to enter the police station.

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        1. Dude, you have to get over this. I ran a story when the police officer was placed on leave. If and when he receives discipline you will read about it first here. Did the Kenosha news write anything about this? I am covering it but he deserves due process. What makes you think I’m afraid to write about a cop being disciplined?

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          1. Dude you dig and dish on all kinds of teachers and staff well before anything happens to them. Why the special treatment here.

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    1. Someone explain to me how does the HR director for the county make more than the county executive. And why is she the highest paid employee within the county?

      1. She’s also by far the worst employee— she is singlehandedly responsible for crushing morale & sending turnover rates through the roof. She’s tripled her department from what her predecessor had, and their efficiency and productivity has TANKED.

        Everyone thought she would be the one to go when the board gave Sam the ability to replace people at her level… and yet she remains.

        Fukkn wild.

        1. How long has Clara been with the county? There are multiple well qualified employees, with exemplary work ethic that have been here over 15 years, yet they aren’t at the top of the pay scale for their position. Yet the one person who dictates what your worth is as an employee and what you get paid, is already at the top? This needs to be looked into and adjusted! You want morale up, make it fair…

          1. She started in 2016 or around there. They keep talking about it’s a good thing to continue to have room to grow, meanwhile Highways won’t promote from within, new directors come in at the top of the scale and then come budget time, they just bump up their own E level so they can continue to see increases. How many directors are truly qualified and doing a good job? Any?

            1. Highways doesn’t promote from within because after the leads and county foremen, it’s incompetence straight up. Can’t promote from within because they can’t risk promoting someone who will expose their incompetence.

    1. Did you notice how many share the same last name, and how many are tied into the powers that run things? And many, many, many B.S. jobs.

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      1. The is nepotism and cronyism in government is rampant. Your actual skill at doing the job you’re hired for is secondary to who you know and it applies to both getting hired and promotions.

    2. KUSD CFO $100,000
      GTC CFO $180,000
      Why is Gateway’s pay so much higher. Makes me sick what Gateway employees make. They also grossly overstaffed.

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      1. I’m “of color” and willing to bet more educated and competent. You clearly are spewing out your ignorance and poor me thinking because you are unhappy with your own place in life. This mentality you have is why so many poor white people were easily manipulated to hating people of color and leading to the whole Jim crow/white supremacy in the first place.

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  2. I’d like to see what the airport staff costs us annually. And I say “costs” because it’s a loss. 10 people (maybe) that are Kenosha city residents have an airplane there. We subsidize Steiner aviation, and a bunch of Illinois people.

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    1. 7 employees, and the director can’t supervise all of them for his nearly $60/hr? We need to pay a maintenance “lead” $10/hr MORE than all of the other maintenance workers? Sounds like the director needs to step up and direct.

  3. KUSD food service, custodians and special education are paid horribly! No wonder the turn over is terrible and they are severely understaffed.

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  4. So, City Administrator John Morrissey is paid $104.12 per hour.

    Not bad for only having a high school diploma.

    He claims to have a Bachelor’s degree. But KCE published an article describing that degree as fake.

    And to think that no one on the city council gives a shit. No wonder this city is so corrupt.

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      1. And despite being a crook, a liar, and a phony, he will run against Kerkman and win, because she’s THAT incompetent.

        Kenosha GOP needs to find someone to primary her, and fast.

    1. We do not need both a city administrator and a mayor!!! That position was created many years ago. It’s ridiculous. Bring in DOGE…LOL

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    1. The Pleasant Prairie village administrator probably has a Real college degree, maybe even a Masters. All of us in Kenosha are stuck with a city administrator who makes a ton of money with a fake college degree.

      And the mayor and city council are ok with that?

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      1. The leadership in Unpleasant Prairie is run thru village board (Steinbrink, Polloncoff and Dave Klimisch, the village administrator is only a figure head with NO power look what they did to last village administrator they bought him off with buyout that he has to keep silent on village affairs.

      2. Steinbrink Jr had an employee do his engineering degree test for him. We paid him as though he really has one. JR owes us big time! He’s got it made with the little bit of “time” he has to serve ( if THATS what you want to call it when you get to leave all day from the jail and still completely run your business). He only had to pay 30,000, but that’s nothing compared to the harm he caused for the families by firing them if they didn’t do the unethical or illegal things he wanted them to do and how much he stole from the tax payers in Pleasant Prairie!!

        I hope all of you Pleasant Praire people are tired of all the crap from the Village Administration and you vote for Eric Meadows for President! We need a new turn in our town just like Salem did!

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        1. all the people who used to be johns yes-men are now in charge, and doing a horrible job. look at the roads, prairie used to have the cleanest plowed roads around. now they come out the day after to plow

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  5. Thanks for posting this compiling this information. This should be done more often. This probably does not reflect the reasons they got this year in 2025.

    1. Hourly wage isn’t accurate for most of those. KUSD base it on a 10 month paid salary, because they don’t accumulate vacation days like most employers. Their paid days off are pre determined.

    2. Not true for all teachers. What blows my mind is that there are some teachers making 20k more than teachers that have been teaching for 20+ years. And there are some teachers getting paid almost 6 figures, and they are nothing special.

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      1. If a teacher gets a Masters degree as well as another 30 graduate credits they move up in pay which is only right for continuing their education at that level.

  6. VOTE NO FOR KUSD REFERENDUM. Too top heavy at the ESC and they are asking for money. I don’t think so…why do we have so many people making 100k+ in salaries???

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    1. 100k isn’t that much money. For a group that complained about inflation for the last 4 years I think you would get that at this point.

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  7. Hold on a minute….the twin lakes police chief is making 100k a year and the village bought her a brand new jeep for a personal vehicle?? Does a small town pd chief really NEED that on that salary? I saw the fire department was looking for more money for staffing? Just wow…I support the cops but that seems a bit ridiculous for a small town…anywhere

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  8. Over worked, under paid…. Can’t really use that story for much longer. Teachers who make 30k more than I do, and “only work” 10 months of the year. I don’t have 2 months PTO, or a swanky benefits package. GTFO…. Vote no

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    1. That’s right. Instead of fixing bring everybody down. The goal is slavery while not using the word slavery. You are such a tool.

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    2. Right the I made poor career choices so instead of improving my situation I’ll advocate for all around misery. Great ideals

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  9. We need a KCOGE…Kenosha County Office of Government Efficiency. Anytime the government is involved, there’s bound to be overspending & inefficiency.

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    1. Yes, they can started with Gateway. Too many overpaid & grossy overstaffed.
      Every year there is an employee learning day which wastes taxpayers money so they can learn swing dance & other ridiculous things that don’t help with jobs.
      Each department has retreats, more waste of taxpayers money.

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      1. Don’t forget learning how to plant cacti. They refuse to use this day for anything beneficial for the students or instructors. It would be AN EXCELLENT day to teach them how to use the equipment in the classrooms instead of just giving instructors a fob to enter the room and saying “Ok go!”. The equipment isn’t the same in all rooms and to someone whose never used a projector system, microphone, document camera, it can be a little tricky. Especially when you’re tasked with instructing students both in class and online at the same time. Do we spend Employee learning day learning about how to do those things? NO! But if you’re interested in MAGIK The Gathering Cards, you’ll have a blast at ELD!

        1. Being a former GTC employee, I despised the ELD. Complete waste of time. Luckily, COVID intervened and they were virtual so I could just turn my camera and mic off and actually do productive things.

  10. Dave-

    This is great. I hope this will be updated year over year. If there was a way to track salary growth, would love to see that as a baseline accountability measure.

  11. Gateway pays newer employees more than those who’ve worked there for years with more experience. Disgusting.
    DOGE needs to come in an clean house, starting with the overstaffed & overpaid Talent & Culture. They promote from within without posting jobs to unqualified people.
    There are do many lazy employees who spend their time creating useless meetings & parties.
    Way too many Directors too.

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    1. Especially the compensation director. There is no way that’s a full time job when they allegedly rely on a “formula” for compensation. They like to reward each other in that department.

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  12. GTC will be saying goodbye to the following at or lose federal funding after February 28th:
    Tammi Summers Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion $154,853
    Jomarie Colorian $93,827
    Danyanna Dunn $65 824
    Katelyn Lohre $91,696
    Stacey Malacara $91,696
    Desmar McDuffie $75,187
    Francisco Navarro $58,352
    And all other DEI employees
    That will be a big savings as there are so many.
    Watch for these names, if still there with different title that defies the executive order.

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    1. ….does the money stay with the college ?
      Or does that get refunded to the taxpayers ?

      Sure DEI is gone but do those $$$ stay in their budget to be used elsewhere ?

    2. The president of GTC sent out an e-mail to employees today stating exactly that: “Dr. Tammi Summers will continue in her role as acting vice president of Student Affairs as well as continue to lead student support programming.” The rest of those people on the list sit in the multi-cultural room eating all day. I’ve never seen a student in there, they all just sit around a buffet of food doing nothing. The worst part is over half of the GTC employees “work from home” aka COLLECT A PAYCHECK. In one of the highest paid departments- IT- only 25 of their 55 person department come to campus. The administrative building is even worse (where Talent & Culture is housed), there are more empty desks there than I’ve ever seen anywhere. Yet the hard working ones who come to campus and put miles on their vehicles, pay for gas, pay for a wardrobe to wear, beauty/hygiene supplies etc. have to fight to keep their jobs because the ‘Executive Leadership Team’ don’t think they’re needed. Gateway has classes until 10:00pm most nights but the ELT doesn’t think they need an IT tech after 5:30pm?!?!? The actual IT techs seem like some of the hardest working people at Gateway yet they keep getting cut, not replaced, while people’s wives, mother’s and tenants are hired at ridiculous rates and never come to campus. I met a Gateway employee who had been there 3 years and was on campus twice: once to fill out his new hire paperwork and once for issues with his gateway issued laptop. Let’s not forget these people’s salaries don’t end there, they get amazing benefits including PET INSURANCE, 14 paid days off per year for ‘holidays’ like Veteran’s Day , Flag Day and Juneteenth, AND $500-$1,000 standing desks to work at, there’s a dept. that even got a treadmill for one of their employees to walk on while she’s at work! They all get laptops, monitors, $300 wireless headsets etc. I don’t understand why over half of Gateways administration and IT department “work” from home when that started for COVID which has been over for 3 years now. No one monitors their productivity, there isn’t one single person who has to fill out a productivity report, no one ensures they’re producing 40 hours worth of work every week, yet they’re all getting OBSCENE amounts of pay for 40 hours of weekly work.

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      1. Exactly how do you know no one monitors their productivity? They may even be working more than 40 hours, but might not report it because it would trigger overtime and they don’t want that to look bad, even thought it would legally be required to be reported and paid. I do not work at GTC, but I personally know several and know their work ethic. While WFH could potentially be abused, that doesn’t mean the it IS abused in 100% of cases like this implies.

        Wage rates are fair game and could be compared to private sector employees…some seem like what I see at my workplace, some might not.

        I get the anger, but making accusations without proof is one of the problems in the current political climate.

      2. I completely agree with you that the IT techs (and all other on campus staff/faculty) work very hard and should be respected and staffed appropriately. However, tearing down remote workers doesn’t help anyone. If someone’s work requires them to be at a computer all day, what difference does it make where they are? As far as office furniture, no remote workers should have received funds for that, and if you’re referring to on campus workers having standing desks, why is that a bad thing? Furniture lasts a long time, it should be as ergonomic as possible. Non-standing desks aren’t that much cheaper. Regarding remote worker productivity, as the other commenter mentioned, how do you know it’s not being monitored? Not everything should require a form, there’s more than enough of those out there. Remote worker output goes directly into various software systems, which supervisors have access to. Depending on the work product, it may need one or more direct administrative approvals, or it could just be reviewed in a general way. Remote workers are required to frequently attend online meetings to discuss ongoing work. Also, I’m pretty sure the pet insurance you refer to isn’t an amazing benefit. If Gateway does pay anything for that it would be crazy and I’d be upset too!

  13. I have a college degree, been in the healthcare field for almost 10 years and make a third of some of these people… crazy.

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    1. Why is it crazy? What college degree what job? As I tell people often, these careers were on the menu. You just picked wrong.

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    2. That is sad…makes you wonder why they spend so much on fancy buildings/hospitals and why our healthcare is among the most expensive in the world. I get spending money of top equipment. When I see HUGE atriums, fountains, curving lobbies and the like I can’t help but think about how much more something like that in a house would cost vs the homes most of us live in. Are patient outcomes better because of those amenities?

  14. This is good information. It may need some refinement but a very good start. It shows that some people are underpaid, some are adequately paid and some salaries are way out of line. The city administrator, for example, has seldom been a professional administrator vs. Pleasant Prairie where the administrators (like them or now) have substantially better qualifications and are paid less than the city. There’s more. Pleasant Prairie pays its communications guy a hefty $101K but that’s a pittance compared to the nearly $150K KUSD shells out to Tanya Ruder and the county p.r. guy must feel cheated at $84K. Meanwhile, Sheriff Zoerner is paid $16K less than the Pleasant Prairie Police Chief and the gap with the Kenosha Police Chief is even greater.

  15. Gateway Talent & Culture fancy name for HR?
    Paul Aceto, Administrative Assistant $31.29/hr = $65,083.20 before ot
    Selina Bohn, Director, Compensation $115,469.
    Ann Fredriksson, Training and Development Specialist $29.13/hr = $60,590.40 before ot
    Elizabeth Guerrero, Manager, Talent Acquisition $89,397.
    Heather Halbach, Manager, Benefits $76,066.
    Maria Iribarren Turmero, Talent Acquisition Specialist $63,386.
    Alan Jelinek, Manager, Payroll $92,493.
    Jacqueline Morris, Vice President, Talent & Culture $163,151.
    Magan Perez, Director, Employee Engagement $114,594.
    Michelle Ruiz, Payroll Tech $30.85/hr = $64,168 before ot
    Denise Schneider, Training and Development Manager $85,141.
    This equals $989,500/year of our taxpayer dollars for just this department provided I didn’t miss anyone.
    Who is allowing our money to be wasted this way? Just think of the other departments.
    How is this is helping students?
    I’ve worked at bigger corporations with a small hr department.
    Everyone should be outraged!!!!

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      1. There are departments within Kenosha County the finance department and human resource department still have remote days a.k.a work from home 🤣. I thought that ended years ago.

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        1. Why doesn’t Samantha Kerkman stop all working from home for employees and make them work in county buildings?

          Wait, she will have to check with Decker and Gersten before she can give an answer.

        1. Directors and managers do more than just directing and managing people. They are responsible for work that is done and the procedures for completing that work, navigating the various legal and ethical situations that come up, and being the people that are held accountable for all of this. This isn’t a defense of what’s going on at Gateway. I just want you to look at this from a larger lens than just “overseeing people”.

    1. Cassandra Hiller is underpaid for her experience and qualifications ! Salem is lucky to have her.

      The “New” Village of Salem Lakes is going through growing pains as they work towards understanding and implementing all the responsibilities that a village is responsible by state law !

      For once being the oldest Town in the state, over 160 years, as a New Village the population needs to understand that compliance cost money !

      Additionally while it’s been a decade or more since the fire department went from volunteer to paid full time staff, they still struggle with having enough employees to fulfill the requirements of fire and ambulance services for their residents 24 hours a day.
      Not to mention the corruption cycle they just got out of last year.

      Retaining staff requires paying them a competitive wage. And in that regard they are lacking.
      Salem Residents need to understand that to live in their very nice, non city, non Illinois, non backwoods community, they need to pay more for the services they require and expect !!

      Salem is on the right path but that path needs attention and support and maintenance to keep clear. Salem is a great place to live for people who still work in Illinois and Milwaukee but don’t want to live in Illinois and Milwaukee. As we expect more we need to realize that our cost are the same as those other places.
      Not being in Illinois or Milwaukee doesn’t make our cost or bills cheaper.
      If you enjoy our semi rural setting, and want to keep it that way, get involved with your village. If nothing else, go to a monthly meeting or two.

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      1. Calm down, Rita. People are allowed to think blowing the budget on an under-qualified IL person is a bad idea. The proof is in the financials.
        And enough with the “new board”. They’ve been on long enough to be held accountable for the crap we are seeing. Cassandra doesn’t care about this town, she cares about herself, her paycheck, the perks she’s creating for herself and now her new furniture and assistant she doesn’t need. WASTE OF MY TAX DOLLARS.

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        1. People like you like to watch the nickels and dimes when the dollars are flying over your head.
          Cassandra is watching and figuring every dollar because there are so few of them to do what is required by law.
          You need to get a clue on how all the rules changed back in 17 when we became a village.
          If you remember back then there were plenty of examples of Dianne and the rest who liked the village idea but didn’t have a clue what it meant.
          Muddled through it until the scrutiny got to be too much.
          People like you should think before you spout off.
          Read. Look. Listen. Get a clue

          1. Ha! No acknowledgment of the mismanagement of late I see? How about the over spending at the FD or the cronyism that is pushing good long time clerks out? Or maybe it’s Hillers obsession with “doing something big” to get her name out there at the detriment of the Village?
            Good effort 😉

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            1. At the Fire Department ?

              How about trying to catch up to where they need to be.
              Plenty of information out there. Just open your eyes !

              1. Precisely, you need to catch up to the lack of oversight and lack of knowledge at VoSL. They are all quite lost and they weren’t prepared for the takeover of the the old Board. Same shit show, different people- only now we have an overpaid who puppeteer who hasn’t a clue.

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  16. For transparency, could you include years of service, bachelors/masters degrees and required state teaching licenses????

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  17. People need to put pressure on the city and the mayor to eliminate the city administrator position the city does not need it

    1. Yes, Our city does not need a city administrator, especially an unqualified city administrator with a fake college degree.

    1. You should try and be a corrections officer. They are always hiring because of the extremely high turnover. Many think that all they do is prevent criminals from escaping. Our jails and prisons have turned into mental hospitals due to the lack of facilities that treat mental illness.
      As far as the pay, Kenosha County is the lowest paying County in southeast Wisconsin/northern Illinois with the exception of Walworth. Corrections officers at the state level start at over 5 more dollars an hour and have better benefits along with paid protective status. When Act 10 happened, Kenosha County stripped away so many benefits including post retirement health insurance meaning that a corrections officer would need to work until they qualify for Medicare to maintain health insurance. If you Google the life expectancy of a corrections officer, it is 59. So it is essentially a death sentence to stay a corrections officer for Kenosha County.
      It is a thank less job that is even further amplified by the fact that the administration does nothing to increase morale. They think that creating a new position of ” department wellness coordinator ” (probably making 100k a year), will help retention, but it won’t.
      Kevin should do a story on the turnover in corrections and the costs associated with the never ending cycle of new hires that go through training and never make it.
      Kevin should do a story

    1. Starting salary is less than the national average. The ones making more have been there a long time. Don’t think they should make minimum wage? The referendum was t even for salaries. Ignorance is bliss.

  18. So an Alderman who is responsible for a city budget, can’t properly do the math on hourly teacher salaries based on the 10 months they get paid for? That’s amusing if not scary.

    This is also public data anybody can find it with a simple google search. Real breaking news.

  19. My neighbor is the Highways Operations Superintendent at 96,107 annually. His county provided vehicle is gone for a couple of hours in the morning, and a couple of hours in the afternoon, four days a week. Otherwise, it sits in his driveway and he sits in his house. Is he working from home? How does the Highway Department work from home?

    1. The same way the ‘Director’ of IT @ Gateway’s Administrative assistant ‘works’ from home. How does that make any sense? Your boss is here and you’re at home ‘working’?!? Doing WHAT?!? Because all the other employyes AT WORK are having to answer the phones and open the door for people so what are you getting paid for? Let’s not bring up the OTHER ‘Director’s wife who gets paid 29.87 per hour to ‘work’ from home doing ‘packaging’?!?! She comes to campus once every 3 months when new computers come in to help unbox them, every other day is punched in from 7-3 collecting a paycheck, I can’t even refer to it as working from home anymore. OH! And lets not forget about the OTHER IT administrative assistant who got her mother a job collecting a paycheck from Gateway. Don’t even know what her title is or what she does, no one’s ever even seen her, yet she gets to collect a full time paycheck every two weeks. Ritu Raju what are you paid $167K for annually if you don’t see this abhorrent payroll theft going on?!?!

      1. Anonymous…do you know the job responsibilities and work being done by the people you mention. It sounds like you might know who they are, but not what they are doing day-to-day. You hide behind an ANONYMOUS pseudonym, but make ignorant accusations that may or most likely may not be true. Are you their supervisor and know what they are doing…or just someone who feels like you haven’t gotten treated fairly in life? I feel sorry for you if you feel like a victim of something, but if you are speaking from a point of ignorance, then shame on you for doing the thing that probably has you feeling angry.

        If these people aren’t doing work, that would be an outrage, but I don’t see proof…just assumptions based on who knows what. FYI, I am not a Gateway or public sector employee.

      2. You should know that some of the information you are presenting here is false (look again at the salary chart to check your numbers, and also note that part-time or contract aka casual employees are not labelled as such). The rest of what you posted is only half the story. Assuming you are also a Gateway employee, you should talk to these people or their supervisors directly instead of jumping to conclusions. Just because work is being done remotely where you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Imagine if someone working on campus in a different building from you claimed that *you* weren’t doing any work just because they’ve never seen you working? Remote workers are allowed to be remote because their primary job functions involve working on a computer all day. This type of work can be done anywhere. And if you think answering the phone for visitors and subsequently opening a door encompasses an entire job role, I can assure you that your mind would be blown by all the other work these people do.

      3. I don’t know where you’ve gotten your information from. The ‘Director’ of IT does not have an administrative assistant. The other ‘Director’s wife doesn’t do packaging. No casual employee collects a full time paycheck, so you’re wrong about “OTHER IT administrative assistant’s” mom, and that person isn’t an administrative assistant either. Get your facts right and quit being a troll.

  20. Hey Kevin. Why don’t you go ahead and request the energage survey results that were done last fall at Gateway? I think they’re stolen on releasing them because they don’t want you to get the story.

  21. It is outrageous what the Gateway Talent & Culture department employees earn. There is no way that many people are needed. In the real world pay isn’t as high and either is head count in HR. Talent & Culture is an expense & doesn’t bring in any money, just spends it. I’d like to know how much is spent on the department traveling to attend unnecessary conferences, etc. or unnecessary trips to other campuses. Also how much is spend on studies by outside firms? The latest one all employees spent many hours trying to fill in an all size fits form with no instructions. Talent & Culture and our supervisors don’t know what we do? When the results are returned they’ll spin the truth like Harris’ election interview. This is what happens with the Energage results every year. A VP who earns $180,000 & department is always on the bottom ranking should be fired. No accountability, this VP is of color. The white VP who had the job was fired for this type of performance but not one of color. DEI at its finest. The current VP will lie directly to your face & next time deny it and is very incompetent. This VP doesn’t treat everyone in the department equally. One of the brown nosers to CEO. This VP never should have been promoted.

    There are many hard working departments, granted not all of them, that keep the college actually running. Without these other departments GTC would be shut down. These departments aren’t paid fairly. Talent & Culture isn’t one of them. There are plenty of payroll companies that charge less and don’t cost all the benefits, i.e., pension, health insurance, etc.

    Talent & Culture s overpais & overstaffed but can’t pay others fairly. New employees shouldn’t earn more than current employees with experience & seniority. When an employee chooses to take a lower paying job their pay should be cut. They are allowed to keep higher pay which is most oftem higher than pay range. For example if you chose to switch from administration to teaching. You have no experience teaching & are getting paid more then experienced instructors who’ve been at GTC for years.

    All departments at GTC are overstaffed. Get rid of employee learning day, department retreats and unnecessary meetings. These 3 items leave departments unattended which isn’t right. Stop the baby showers, etc during office hours. Some have as many as 70 employees invited. Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying wages for all this garbage. I’m paid to work & that is what I want to do.

    Start with getting rid of VP Talent & Culture and all her buddies who didn’t deserve the promotions!

  22. I’ve seen many comments about the issues at Gateway, including DEI, Talent & Culture, IT, staffing, and pay. Instead of addressing these concerns constructively, many choose to post anonymous comments on a biased platform, creating an echo chamber.

    If you want your concerns to be heard, consider attending a board meeting and voicing them directly. There is a standing agenda item for Citizen Comments at every meeting.

    How many community members attended the last meeting to share their concerns? Zero. And the meeting before that? Zero. And the one before that? Zero.

    I think you see the pattern. I don’t remember the last time a community member, who isn’t an employee of the college or someone cherry-picked to speak to the board, voiced their concerns directly to the board.

    So, instead of being a troll, come and make the board aware of your thoughts.

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