NE Valley Times

Christine Connett earned $39,858 in 2018 working as a program project specialist for the Department of Education, 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 Education—Mark Masterson—earned $154,319.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Mark Masterson	--	$154,319
2	Michael Bradley	--	$150,000
3	Satish Pattisapu	--	$145,000
4	Britto Augustine	--	$135,000
5	Shari Zara	--	$125,000
6	Edward Block	--	$117,500
7	Ross Begnoche	--	$113,000
7	Carol Lippert	--	$113,000
9	Kelly Koenig	--	$111,000
9	Robert Callahan	--	$111,000
9	Michael Mannelly	--	$111,000
12	Rohith Chintamaneni	Senior app developer	$105,000
13	Jon Bucy	--	$100,716
14	Billie Belanger	--	$99,500
15	Lyle Friesen	--	$95,000
15	Rod Marten	--	$95,000
17	Rajesh Kota	--	$94,000
18	Lisa Blyler	--	$92,000
19	Melissa Conner	--	$90,000
19	Keith Snyder	--	$90,000
19	Wendy Davy	--	$90,000
22	Kate Wright	--	$89,000
23	Michael Holmes	--	$87,589
24	Lisa Eddy	--	$87,444
25	Eric Moyer	Senior app developer	$87,363
26	Alissa Trollinger	--	$85,000
26	Audra Ahumada	--	$85,000
26	Sarah Hendrix	--	$85,000
26	Devon Isherwood	--	$85,000
26	Viju Viswanathan Jagadamma Achari	--	$85,000
26	Daniel Godzich	--	$85,000
26	Paul Cardinallo	--	$85,000
26	Lori Ventura	--	$85,000
26	Daniel Schultz	Hearing officer	$85,000
26	Mary Raymond	--	$85,000
26	Diane Douglas	--	$85,000
26	Jonathan Moore	--	$85,000
38	Melissa Moreno	--	$84,000
38	Selene Ramirez	Accounting manager	$84,000
38	Mark Luzier	--	$84,000
41	Christy Ellison	--	$83,000
41	Stefan Swiat	--	$83,000
43	Cara Alexander	--	$82,000
43	Bruce Duplanty	--	$82,000
45	Tommie Hall	Application developer	$81,500
46	Peter Laing	Program administrator	$81,375
47	Sheryl Hart	--	$80,000
47	David Nunez	Senior app developer	$80,000
47	Steven Paulson	--	$80,000
47	Nicol-Azizi Russell	--	$80,000
51	Kumar Govinda Surendra Raju	--	$78,750
51	William Jen	Application developer	$78,750
53	Emily James	--	$78,000
53	Wendell Moine	--	$78,000
55	Kacey Gregson	--	$77,469
55	Sabah Hussain	--	$77,469
57	Mark Francis	--	$77,468
57	Marilyn Gardner	--	$77,468
59	Linda Murnane	--	$77,000
60	Randall Morter	Application developer	$76,931
61	Xiaoyuan Tan	--	$76,650
62	Yating Tang	--	$75,600
63	Sean Boggess	Application developer	$75,587
64	Sean Ross	--	$75,500
65	Lacey Wieser	--	$75,142
66	Eric Merritt	Systems administrator	$75,000
66	Steve Larson	--	$75,000
66	Karla Escobar	Administrative services officer	$75,000
66	Von Nicole Prisk	--	$75,000
66	Alice Raj	--	$75,000
66	Clifford Melheim	Systems administrator	$75,000
66	Lindsay Hudson	Administrative services officer	$75,000
66	Susan Edman	--	$75,000
66	Eram Dhanani	--	$75,000
75	Susan Mast	--	$74,550
76	Robert Weiss	Application developer	$73,123
77	Sarah Sleasman	--	$73,000
78	Tracey Sridharan	--	$72,500
78	Margaret Bowerman	--	$72,500
78	Mark Mauro	--	$72,500
81	Christina Read	--	$72,100
82	Nadine Groenig	--	$72,000
82	Tammy Waller	--	$72,000
82	Charis Newberry	--	$72,000
82	Cynthia Wingfield	--	$72,000
86	Luis Silva	--	$71,564
86	Micky Gutier	Educational program specialist	$71,564
86	Geraldine Haskins	Educational program specialist	$71,564
86	Leann Gilbreath	Educational program specialist	$71,564
90	John Cortez	Educational program specialist	$71,563
90	Susan Poole	Educational program specialist	$71,563
90	Virginia Stodola	Educational program specialist	$71,563
90	Forster Okoli	Educational program specialist	$71,563
90	Brenda Vanderwerp	Educational program specialist	$71,563
95	Aaron Wonders	Administrative services officer	$71,500
95	Dustin Loehr	--	$71,500
97	Nerissa Emers	--	$71,000
98	Beverly Wilson	--	$70,772
99	John Eickman	--	$70,771
100	Brian Thayer	--	$70,350