The Columbus Dispatch reported Saturday on salaries collected by executives of quasi-public JobsOhio. A phrase that could fairly describe those paychecks is "wretched excess."

JobsOhio is Republican Gov. John Kasich's signature economic development mechanism. It's a private, nonprofit corporation effectively funded by profits from Ohio's liquor monopoly. The General Assembly gave JobsOhio many duties of the former Ohio Department of Development. The idea is that JobsOhio can be nimbler.

For 2014, JobsOhio, by its count, "successfully assisted 276 companies that committed to create 21,377 new jobs for Ohioans and make $6.1 billion in new capital investments." And late in May, Kasich announced that Amazon.com Inc. would add 1,000 jobs in Ohio.

The Dispatch found that JobsOhio salaries rose steeply in 2014. For instance, the annual salary of JobsOhio President John F. Minor Jr. "grew by about $82,000, to more than $306,964 last year." A JobsOhio spokesman told The Dispatch that Minor's salary rose as it did because he'd earlier deferred receiving some of it.