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Coroner urges higher, full-time pay: "somewhere in the seventies" recommended
Summary
The county coroner argued the job is effectively full-time and requires higher starting pay to attract qualified professionals; the coroner offered a job description and statewide comparisons for the board to review.
The county coroner asked the board to stop comparing salaries on a flat, across-the-board basis and to recognize the coroners specialized workload and training. "I would say you guys are probably worth 70,000 too," the coroner said while urging the board to consider a starting salary in the "seventies" for the office to be competitive.
The coroner described the positions demands—24/7 availability for death investigations, weekend and evening work, and significant case-handling responsibilities—and offered an 18-page job description and comparative caseload numbers from around the state. The coroner said the community needs a professional, NAME-aligned office and volunteered to supply numbers for commissioners to evaluate.
