NE Valley Times

Clayton Jernigan earned $45,279 in 2018 working for the Department of Water Resources, 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 Water Resources—Thomas Buschatzke—earned $140,000 as the director.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Thomas Buschatzke	Director	$140,000
2	Lynne Smith	--	$120,000
2	Clinton Chandler	Assistant director	$120,000
4	Kenneth Slowinski	--	$119,990
5	Michael Collins	Assistant director	$107,000
6	Nicole Klobas	Attorney	$105,000
7	Jorge Cano	--	$98,700
8	Ravi Murthy	--	$98,630
9	Gerry Walker	--	$97,661
10	Keith Nelson	--	$93,026
11	Virginia O'Connell	--	$90,000
11	Jeffrey Tannler	--	$90,000
11	Scott Selin	Assistant director	$90,000
11	Jeff Inwood	Assistant director	$90,000
15	Kelly Brown	--	$89,450
15	Jennifer Heim	--	$89,450
15	Ayesha Vohra	--	$89,450
18	Douglas Dunham	--	$89,250
19	Waleed Aboshanp	--	$88,939
20	Jing-Shing Hsu	--	$87,000
21	Joy Hernbrode	--	$86,950
21	Kimberly Parks	--	$86,950
23	Ronald Holcomb	Senior app developer	$86,000
24	Jose Rivera	--	$84,000
24	Sue Terri Rossi	--	$84,000
24	Rogelio Martinez	--	$84,000
27	Teri Davis	--	$83,596
28	Nathan Harris	--	$82,000
29	Spence Nicole Gibson	--	$80,527
30	Lisa Williams	--	$80,088
31	Jeff Trembly	--	$80,071
32	Joseph Grana	--	$80,000
32	Bani Ellie Hashem	--	$80,000
32	Adam Raczynski	--	$80,000
35	Janet Miller	--	$78,000
35	Karen Fisher	--	$78,000
37	Elizabeth Logan	--	$77,176
37	Stella Murillo	--	$77,176
39	Daniel Fielder	--	$75,000
39	Douglas Maceachern	--	$75,000
39	Vineetha Kartha	--	$75,000
39	David McKay	--	$75,000
43	Dianne Yunker	--	$74,520
44	Donna Calderon	--	$74,000
44	Einav Henenson	--	$74,000
46	Hugo Perea	--	$73,500
47	Justin Clark	--	$73,000
48	David Keadle	Water resources specialist	$71,800
49	Brian Cosson	--	$70,971
50	Steven Rascona	--	$70,617
51	Brian Conway	--	$70,544
51	Paul Ivanich	--	$70,544
53	Jeri Mcanerny	Administrative services officer	$70,000
53	Bret Esslin	--	$70,000
53	Rabi Gyawali	--	$70,000
56	Stewart Sally Lee	Administrative services officer	$69,000
56	Natalie Mast	--	$69,000
56	Glen Buettner	--	$69,000
59	Karen Modesto	Water resources specialist	$68,020
60	Suzanne Sarpong	Water resources specialist	$68,000
60	Arash Nadri	--	$68,000
62	Richard Obenshain	Water resources specialist	$67,144
63	Tracey Carpenter	--	$66,360
64	Stefanie Smallhouse	--	$65,544
65	Tito Comparan	--	$65,447
66	Lisa Dubas	Water resources specialist	$65,354
67	Reuben Teran	--	$65,000
68	Linda Colwell	--	$63,000
68	Olga Hart	--	$63,000
70	Ezra Hazell	Senior app developer	$62,000
71	Ryan Jackisch	--	$60,588
72	Craig Brown	Water resources specialist	$60,452
73	Hilary Morgan	--	$60,000
73	Michael Shelton	Water resources specialist	$60,000
75	Michelle Moreno	Administrative services officer	$58,825
76	Lyman Stiles	Water resources specialist	$58,000
76	Caleb Schrank	--	$58,000
78	Shannon Reif	Water resources specialist	$57,525
79	Mark Perez	Water resources specialist	$57,500
80	Guadalupe Beimer	--	$57,000
80	Kyle Miller	--	$57,000
82	John Mawarura	--	$56,267
83	Lovonte Owens	--	$56,000
83	Jacob Nelson	Application developer	$56,000
85	Michael Ball	Water resources specialist	$55,856
86	Ana Marquez	Administrative services officer	$55,650
87	Jennifer Marteniez	--	$55,500
88	Kymberly Luttermoser	Water resources specialist	$55,216
89	Kevin Hadder	Water resources specialist	$55,175
90	John Riggins	Water resources specialist	$55,000
91	James Dieckhoff	--	$54,700
91	Scott Stuk	--	$54,700
93	Lori Cason	Water resources specialist	$53,779
94	Elizabeth Heller	--	$53,500
94	Fitch Chanel Kirkpatrick	Water resources specialist	$53,500
96	Amy Levy	Water resources specialist	$52,885
97	Sylvia Valdez	Water resources specialist	$51,681
98	Susan Montoya	Water resources specialist	$50,885
98	Kevin Crego	Water resources specialist	$50,885
98	Nicolas Valverde	Water resources specialist	$50,885