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Public Employee Salaries Exposed

By AAN Staff
may 27, 2002  08:20 pm
Public Employee Salaries Exposed
Q: Which employee on the eastern Washington state public payroll makes the most money? A: Washington State Cougar football coach Mike Price. With a salary of almost $440,000 in 2001, Price is far and away the highest-paid public worker in the region. How do we know? Tom Grant of The Local Planet Weekly compiled 60,000 public employee wages from eastern Washington and northern Idaho into a simple database small enough to fit on a floppy. Readers can e-mail the newspaper to receive a copy of the database. Requests began arriving before copies of the accompanying article even hit the racks.
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