The New Bern Sun Journal has retained legal counsel to obtain public records request from the city of New Bern regarding employee salaries.
A request for first and last name, job title, department, and salary was sent to the city and Craven County, in accordance with North Carolina law. As government employees are paid with taxpayer dollars, it is the public's right to know how their money is being spent.
After receiving the entire request in full from the county, the city and New Bern Police Department declined to provide the department's first and last names of sworn law enforcement officers.
The Sun Journal retained Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych, PLLC to litigate the request.
On average, a City of New Bern employee makes more than one with Craven County.
Although the average and median range of each salary are slim in comparison, New Bern's lowest salary employee makes over $1,000 more than Craven's.
The average City of New Bern salary comes out to $50,226, while the median salary is listed as $45,053. Compared to the median for Craven ($43,043), each is almost double the average person's income county-wide.
With inflation rising to the highest rate it's been in 31 years, local government employers look to be the only ones keeping up with the cost of living adjustment needed to match inflation.
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