NE Valley Times

James Bazel earned $44,000 in 2018 working for the Department of Administration, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic on more than 150,000 employees in the state.

The employee's total compensation is made up of an employee's annual salary with the addition of any overtime pay earned throughout the year.

The highest-paid employee working for the Department of Administration—Craig Brown—earned $215,250.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Craig Brown	--	$215,250
2	Morgan Reed	Assistant director	$180,000
3	Elizabeth Thorson	Director	$175,000
4	Kevin Donnellan	--	$161,200
5	Jason Simpson	--	$160,000
6	Ashoke Seth	--	$150,000
6	Edward Jimenez	Assistant director	$150,000
8	John Sloan	--	$145,000
8	Andrew Martin	--	$145,000
10	David Partridge	Assistant director	$140,000
10	Robert Woods	--	$140,000
10	Michael Hladik	--	$140,000
13	Mike Lettman	--	$135,000
14	Nola Barnes	Assistant director	$130,000
14	Raymond Diciccio	Assistant director	$130,000
14	Paul Shannon	Assistant director	$130,000
14	Derik Leavitt	Assistant director	$130,000
14	Ginger Labine	Assistant director	$130,000
14	Randy Williams	--	$130,000
14	Douglas Lange	--	$130,000
21	Megan Rose	Assistant director	$126,500
22	Nicole Sornsin	Assistant director	$125,000
23	Prasad Putta	--	$123,000
24	Michael Smarik	--	$121,800
24	Barbara Corella	--	$121,800
26	John Johnson	--	$120,000
26	Kurt Maurer	--	$120,000
26	Christine Bronson	--	$120,000
26	Nancy Gomez	--	$120,000
26	Gary Hensley	--	$120,000
31	Elizabeth Pence	--	$117,659
32	Stephen Nettles	--	$117,000
33	Tu Nguyen	--	$116,337
34	Jill Pernice	--	$115,000
34	John Lyman	--	$115,000
36	Matthew Hanson	Assistant director	$113,400
37	Lisa Marshall	--	$111,387
38	Angela Dillard	--	$110,000
38	Colleen McManus	--	$110,000
38	Silvia Hernandes	--	$110,000
38	Evan Berrett	--	$110,000
38	Jason Rutka	--	$110,000
38	Punitpal Chhabra	--	$110,000
38	Joel Munter	--	$110,000
38	Michael Beller	--	$110,000
38	Randy Wheaton	--	$110,000
47	Shasti Cooper	--	$108,242
48	Cindy Smith	--	$108,000
48	Bernard Sanden	--	$108,000
48	Dan Wilkins	--	$108,000
48	Gregory Chmielewski	--	$108,000
48	Bonnie Sposato	--	$108,000
53	Sangeetha Sivakumar	--	$107,500
53	Bailey Pell	--	$107,500
55	Martin McRee	--	$106,221
56	Owen Zorge	--	$106,000
57	Tamara Eckloff	--	$105,000
57	Joseph Whitmer	--	$105,000
57	Gregory Carmichael	--	$105,000
57	Joanna Greenaway	--	$105,000
57	Stu Wilbur	--	$105,000
57	Wendy Brazier	--	$105,000
57	Scott Bender	--	$105,000
57	Debra Taylor	--	$105,000
57	Jeff Wolkove	--	$105,000
57	Dennis Donahue	--	$105,000
57	David Montoya	Senior app developer	$105,000
68	Matthew Halstead	--	$104,499
69	Brenda Burns	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
69	Connie Wilhelm	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
69	John Sundt	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
69	Christopher Ames	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
69	Steven Voeller	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
69	Frank Thorwald	Board commisioner or committee member	$104,000
75	Suchismit Chakravorty	Senior app developer	$103,088
76	Amy Aeppli	--	$103,000
76	Ronald Santacruz	--	$103,000
76	Brian Nguyen	--	$103,000
76	Amanda Compton	--	$103,000
76	Michael McGee	--	$103,000
76	Tracey Cappuccio	--	$103,000
76	Crystal Messner	--	$103,000
83	Harikumar Nair	--	$102,500
84	Justin Turner	--	$102,000
84	Elizabeth Esparza	--	$102,000
86	Huey-Ling Ulrey	--	$101,000
87	Michael Meisner	--	$100,000
87	Timothy Rhyne	--	$100,000
87	Sky Desiree Mills	--	$100,000
87	Victor Carrasco	--	$100,000
91	Michelle Huckabay	Accounting manager	$99,500
92	Jerome Freeman	--	$98,000
92	John Hauptman	--	$98,000
92	Jeffrey Crane	--	$98,000
95	Melanie Guyette	--	$97,000
96	Christine Kramer	--	$96,527
97	Tim Mishler	--	$95,685
98	Michael Kallaur	--	$95,000
98	Gregory Vokoun	--	$95,000
98	Joshua Wagner	--	$95,000