Payroll Project: Fairborn’s highest paid employees

The city’s highest public workers in 2015 were:

1. Deborah McDonnell, city manager: $143,544

2. John Thomas, fire division chief: $136,699

3. Michael Riley, fire chief: $108,251

4. Daniel Arwood, police captain: $107,920

5. Peter Bales, assistant city manager: $107,528

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Local governments make payroll with your money. That's why the I-Team is using Ohio public records laws to assemble and analyze payroll data for governments across our region. Read our larger analysis of six-figure salaries across Miami Valley governments here.

Go here for a growing database — containing hundreds of thousands of names and salaries — of government employees who made at least $50,000 in gross compensation last year and in 2014.