Vindicator looks at job turnover in Mahoning departments

YOUNGSTOWN

The number of people leaving Mahoning County government for other jobs varies by departments, and they are leaving for what most of us would as well — more money, a Vindicator analysis shows.

A few departments experienced a large number of employee resignations in 2012 and 2013, while others experienced few or none.

The departments with the largest numbers of resignations during that two-year period were the sheriff’s office, Children Services Board and juvenile court, which had many of the county’s lower-paid employees.

“Here you have skilled individuals [who] are educated that get paid very little,” Commissioner David Ditzler said of those departments.

During the two-year period evaluated by The Vindicator, the total number of county employees was 1,647 at the end of 2012 and 1,668 a year later.

In those years, the county saw 503 departures of employees in all departments.

Of those, 234 resigned, 162 were terminated or laid off, 100 retired and seven died, according to payroll information supplied by the county.

Excluding seasonal, temporary and substitute workers reduced the number of resignations to 107 during 2012 and 2013, which The Vindicator considered for this analysis.

Among the departments that showed no names in the resignation category were the engineer’s department and the auditor’s, treasurer’s and recorder’s offices.

Among those with few resignations were the veterans’ service commission with three.

The sanitary engineer’s, prosecutor’s and dog warden’s offices, Department of Job and Family Services, Board of Health and Board of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services had two each; and the commissioners’ and coroner’s offices, facilities maintenance department, recycling division, domestic relations court, clerk of courts and planning commission had one each.

For a look at departments that saw the most turnover, read Sunday's Vindicator or Vindy.com.