I am grateful to the good workers of Lane County for the outstanding job they do.  They do often thankless work that private sector does not want or does not do well.  We have good people working for our county who live here and are invested in this place at this time.  Many of these jobs require specialized skill that took time, energy and money on the part of the individual workers to obtain.    These jobs make life here in Lane County safer and healthier as a result of the good jobs done by our county workers.  They deserve to be paid well.  
I do not include Mr. Mokrohiskey.  He is at the top of his paygrade in 3 years because apparently he was hired to dismantle the union contract.  He will be moving on if that job gets accomplished, is my bet.   Notice that the commissioners all gave themselves hefty raises, from approximately $74K to $84K.  Granted they had no raises for over a decade, but that's a big leap in one year, not incremental.