Salaries, wages for East Side Health District employees added to BND Public Pay Database
The salaries of East Side Health Districts employees have been added to the Belleville News-Democrat’s Public Pay Database.
To view the BND’s Public Pay Database, go to www.bnd.com/publicpay.
The highest earner was Elizabeth Patton-Whiteside, the public health administrator for the district, who was paid $114,728.90 in total wages, according to records provided to the BND through a Freedom of Information Act request for the 2020-2021 fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2021.
Kenecia Dones, an advanced practice nurse program manager, was the second-highest earner, bringing in $108,016.25, the records show. Cheryl Acker, a nurse practitioner, was the third highest position with total wages of $89,684.
The fourth highest earner was Linda Shelton, a division director, with $89,233.20 in total wages, and the fifth-highest earner was Bhagya Kolli, an assistant administrator, with $74,739.33.
You can see the complete list of district employees by clicking on “East Side Health District” in the index at the top of the BND Public Pay Database box. Select 2020 as the year and hit the search button.
The East Side Health District was established in 1937 and works to improve public health and the environment for the residents of Canteen, Centreville, East St. Louis and Stites townships in St. Clair County, according to the district’s website.
Do you want to look at salaries of employees in other governments? All you have to do is follow the same guidance. Use the drop down menu beside the space labeled “government” to find a specific local government’s list, then go from there. Or you can skip that step and look at all the salaries in the database from across the region by scrolling to the bottom of the menu and hitting “search.”
You can drill down deeper too. To see a person’s title in the list of salaries, click on the “details” link on the right side of the box.
You also can click on the “sort by” box to organize your search in various ways, including by first name or last name.
The BND’s Public Pay Database goes back to 2011 with information primarily obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and public filings. The salary information does not always include insurance or benefits. Some records include detailed information on overtime and other pay, while for some districts that information was not readily available.
The database includes compensation for employees in most area governments, including cities, counties, townships, school districts and public colleges and universities. More pay records will be added as the BND receives salary data through open records requests.
