Allegheny County paid a total of $72 million to courthouse employees in 2025, according to data provided in response to a Pittsburgh’s Public Source request. Those employees were mostly probation officers, clerks and judicial assistants.
In addition, judges in the county combined to earn almost $14 million, paid by the state.
Public Source has tracked city and county government pay data for more than a decade. It’s an effort to give our community more information about where its tax dollars are going, bring transparency to the public payroll and remind government officials that the local media and readers are paying attention…