>Many of the upper jobs at Village Hall pay significant more here than other nearby comparable towns

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Many of the upper jobs at Village Hall pay significant more here than other nearby comparable towns

Police are a union contract and cannot currently be renegotiated I’m pretty sure.

They do make more here though than say in HHK- officers over there that we know have told me so.

But many of the upper jobs at VH do not involve a union contract, yet they pay signif. more here than other nearby comparable towns. By “comparable” I mean size and/or population.

Is job of Clerk here really so much more difficult to justify paying $110,740 when Mahwah pays theirs $67,940? That’s one of many examples. Assessor, Tax Collector, and numerous others all seem to pay a lot more here than in other towns. Most also have assistants or deputies.. both here and in other towns.

(source:) https://php.app.com/NJpublicemployees11/search.php
Figures do not include perks, pensions, benefits, etc. And those are 2010 figures — the most recent ones on that site I think.

In the above example, per last census, Mahwah has slightly more people than Village has. It of course does have a much larger land area.

Yet… aren’t the duties pretty much the same? Does the work here require a lot more time, skills and/or other things than it does in other nearby towns for those kinds of jobs? If so, what are they?

Or are we just paying a lot more than other towns for many of these jobs? What do we get in terms of added value for all the added money that is spent?