Top 25 Salaries of Ohio Pension Systems

From John Curry

December 20, 2023

Ohio public employees & Ohio Taxpayers,

Compare and contrast as below are the top 25 Ohio public pension employees' 2022 salaries  (minus the Ohio Police & Fire Retirement System data). Police & Fire are famous for "foot dragging!"

This data comes to us from the Ohio Treasurer's Office and it updated each year. Notice that the dark blue indicates regular salaries while the light blue indicates bonus amounts added on to their regular salaries. NO Highway Patrol Retirement System employee made it on this "top 25" list. Their highest paid employee was their Executive Director, Carl Roark. Carl's salary is only $154,000 and he receives NO bonus.

17 of the top 25 are STRS employees

7 of the top 25 are OPERS employees

1 of the top 25 is an SERS employee

Here is a link to this chart below:

Is there any doubt that STRS pays way too much in salaries as compared to the other systems? https://checkbook.ohio.gov/Salaries/Pension.aspx