Meet the Highest Paid Members of State Government
15 years ago, only 546 state employees made more than $100,000. This year? 4,831. (Tom Corbett was #190 on the list, with a 2012 salary of $178,033.) While Corbett blames Rendell for the increase in spending, the current governor has been more generous in at least one respect. “Salary data for the governor’s office shows Corbett has been looser with the purse strings in compensating his inner circle than the Rendell administration,” the Patriot-News reports. “Corbett had 10 senior staffers earning six-figure salaries last year. Five years ago, Rendell employed one senior staffer making six figures.”
While you are paying the salaries of a ton of six-figure earners, only eight people broke the $300,000 barrier.
Angelo Armenti: $367,561: Now-fired president of the California University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Shahla Behjat: $351,054: Psychiatrist supervisor at Norristown State Hospital
Dr. Danny Liu: $349,462: Psychiatrist supervisor at Warren State Hospital
Dr. Muttu Mahendiran: $334,773: Staff psychiatrist at Torrance State Hospital
Dr. Mohammed Aslam: $334,563: Staff physician at Wernersville State Hospital
John Cavanaugh: $326,495: Ex-Chancellor of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
Vincent DeLiberato: $318,115: Senior attorney, Legislative Reference Bureau
James Preston: $315,200: President and CEO, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
If you want to learn more about how to score a job in one of the recession-proof corners of the public sector, scour the Patriot-News‘s new database of state salaries. [Patriot-News]
