NE Valley Times

The Department of Economic Security paid an average compensation of $41,767 during 2018, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic. Arizona public employees as a whole averaged 42 percent more with a compensation of $59,597. 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 public employee working for the Department of Economic Security—Joanna Kowalik—earned $240,000.

When calculating average compensation, only employees categorized as full time were included.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Amount Earned
1	Joanna Kowalik	--	$240,000
2	Michael Trailor	Director	$215,250
3	Bunnie Richie	--	$205,475
4	Pamela Tom	--	$190,000
5	James Hillyard	--	$160,000
5	Sean Price	--	$160,000
7	Sanjiv Rastogi	Assistant director	$149,952
8	Jeffrey Morley	Assistant director	$140,000
9	Michael Wisehart	Assistant director	$135,000
10	Nicole Davis	--	$130,000
10	Fidencio Rivera	--	$130,000
12	Maureen Casey	--	$128,595
13	Susan Kaz	--	$127,611
13	Randall Garland	--	$127,611
13	Andres Kerns	--	$127,611
13	Cristobal Eblen	--	$127,611
13	Vivienne Kattapong	--	$127,611
13	Alan Goldberg	--	$127,611
13	Teresa Pavese	--	$127,611
13	Stephen Fair	--	$127,611
13	Stephen Bailey	--	$127,611
13	Ralph Mertens	--	$127,611
13	Robert Quinones	--	$127,611
13	Foster Jaine Valdez	--	$127,611
13	Nicole Lazorwitz	--	$127,611
13	Jonathan Zuess	--	$127,611
13	Elliot Salk	--	$127,611
13	Charles Combs	--	$127,611
13	Carol Hutchinson	--	$127,611
13	Yosef Schwartz	--	$127,611
13	Daniel Gross	--	$127,611
13	Dennis Swena	--	$127,611
33	Eugene Campbell	--	$127,604
34	Priscilla Kadi	Assistant director	$125,000
35	Heather Noble	Assistant director	$120,000
36	Glenn Tanita	--	$119,152
37	Debra Peterson	Assistant director	$115,860
38	Lynn Larson	--	$115,850
38	Molly Bright	--	$115,850
40	Mary SchuMacHer	--	$115,000
40	Roberta Blyth	--	$115,000
40	Pearlette Ramos	--	$115,000
40	Cindy Treadwell	--	$115,000
40	Landrum Leah Taylor	Assistant director	$115,000
40	Kenneth Carson	--	$115,000
46	Ryan Riach	--	$110,426
47	Sherri Wince	--	$110,000
47	Anna Boone	--	$110,000
47	Stefanie Schwartz-Jacobs	--	$110,000
47	Jason Sauer	--	$110,000
47	Jennifer Kirchen	--	$110,000
47	Scott Jackson	--	$110,000
47	Rajaram Kollengode	--	$110,000
54	Adele Cook	--	$108,000
55	David Mathis	--	$105,208
56	Molly McCarthy	--	$105,000
56	David Platt	--	$105,000
56	Jeffrey Raynor	--	$105,000
56	Clayton Sikes	--	$105,000
56	Franklin Migali	--	$105,000
56	Mark Chappell	--	$105,000
56	Raymond Colbeck	--	$105,000
56	Doris Stockton	--	$105,000
56	Marcus Wilson	--	$105,000
56	Wesley Fletcher	Program administrator	$105,000
56	Patricia Clark	--	$105,000
56	Johnny Cervantes	--	$105,000
68	Kathy Ber	--	$104,000
69	Tasya Peterson	Assistant director	$103,950
70	Shannon Kavanagh	--	$103,500
71	Nicolette Fidel	--	$103,373
72	Bryon Winston	--	$103,000
72	Stephanie Dowdell	--	$103,000
72	Cassidy Taylor	--	$103,000
72	David Steuber	--	$103,000
76	Garcia Zane Ramadan	--	$102,999
77	Darryl Duke	--	$101,950
78	Albert Barbieri	--	$101,774
79	Jonathan Lucke	--	$100,880
80	Ghada Giliana	--	$100,360
81	Sonya Willis	--	$100,000
81	Sebrina Beckstrom	--	$100,000
81	Steven Pickering	--	$100,000
81	Gregory Pulcipher	--	$100,000
85	Judith Macias-Harris	--	$99,501
85	Lela Wendell	--	$99,501
85	Kristen MacKey	--	$99,501
85	James Ross	Program administrator	$99,501
85	Jill Whittier	--	$99,501
85	Lisa Piedimonte	--	$99,501
91	Winston Hill	--	$98,000
92	Brian Persons	--	$97,685
93	Victoria Navarra	--	$97,500
93	Phillip Jablonski	--	$97,500
95	Ellen Grein	--	$97,399
96	Jason Bernbaum	Accounting manager	$97,000
97	Benjamin Kauffman	--	$96,021
98	Allison McLeod-Konomi	--	$96,000
98	Nakia Goudy	--	$96,000
98	Mae Lora Aquinde	--	$96,000