NE Valley Times

The Department of Administration paid an average compensation of $73,048 during 2018, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic. Arizona public employees as a whole averaged 19 percent less 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 Administration—Craig Brown—earned $215,250.

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

Rank	Employee	Job title	Amount Earned
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