Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2007

$313,398.03 AVERAGE PAY

$31.34M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2007, based on OPM data (base salary + bonuses). Some employee names may be withheld by the OPM or individual agencies.

Also available are the top 100 highest earning employees in each agency:

Rank	Name	Agency	Occupation	Total Pay	Location
1	Thomas V. Cacciarelli	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,683	PA
2	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,581	CA
3	James I. Fann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$361,581	CA
4	Dane Wukich	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,530	PA
5	Bruce L. Ehni	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,530	TX
6	Richard F. Jr Fellrath	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	FL
7	Paul G. Amstutz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	UT
8	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$346,530	CA
9	Moheb S. Moneim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,000	NM
10	Peter P. McKeown	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,000	KY
11	Adir Ludin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$341,581	OH
12	Craig R. George	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$341,530	OH
13	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$335,000	MD
14	Judy Yee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$329,836	CA
15	Peter R. McCombs	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$326,580	PA
16	Hank H. Chen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$326,530	CA
17	Marco A. Cura	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	TX
18	Thomas R. Damiano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	VA
19	Ghazwan Kroma	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	TX
20	Corinne Deurdulian	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	NC
21	H John Gerhard	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	FL
22	Blaine A. Markee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	FL
23	Dennis E. McDonnell	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$325,000	AR
24	Ricardo J. Moreno	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$324,990	CA
25	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$324,632	VA
26	V Kasirajan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$323,051	VA
27	Stuart B. Pett	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$321,632	NM
28	James M. Edwards	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$320,759	OR
29	Tally E. Lassiter	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$320,000	NC
30	Szabolcs Szentpetery	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$320,000	VA
31	Vahe G. Tatikian	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$319,836	ME
32	Rajiv Sawhney	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$314,836	CA
33	Richard K. Osenbach	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$313,051	NC
34	Shukri F. Khuri	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$312,244	MA
35	Ronald S. Farah	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$311,734	NY
36	Maxwell Boakye	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$311,530	CA
37	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	NC
38	Youssef G. Comair	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	TX
39	Peter V. Quagliano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	VA
40	Kathryn L. Holloway	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	VA
41	Gundars J. Katlaps	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	VA
42	James E. Lowe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	NC
43	Elizabeth G. Nabel	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$310,000	MD
44	Paul A. Sieving	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$310,000	MD
45	Meena S. Vij	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	TX
46	Todd R. Arcomano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$310,000	CO
47	Narayana K. Swamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$309,734	MS
48	George A. Brown	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$308,530	OR
49	Peng R. Chen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$307,000	TX
50	Michael H. Huo	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$305,581	TX
51	Gerald Keun Lee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$305,000	CA
52	Daniel M. McNay	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$305,000	CA
53	Thomas C. Barcia	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$305,000	NV
54	Pierson Chiou	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$305,000	CA
55	Roderic I. Pettigrew	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$305,000	MD
56	Yogish D. Kamath	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$304,632	MA
57	Darryl S. Weiman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$304,051	TN
58	Harold G. Dossett	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$303,530	AZ
59	Jyoti M. Shah	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$303,051	NJ
60	Henri Pierre-Jacques	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$303,051	MI
61	John D. Harley	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$302,244	WA
62	Preet S. Kang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$302,181	OH
63	John Esterhai	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,887	PA
64	Byron R. Lais	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	CA
65	Robert A. Belgam	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NY
66	Elizabeth L. Greenstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
67	Christopher M. Mele	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
68	Jeffrey A. Miller	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
69	Stacey Siegel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
70	Joseph R. Zuback	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
71	Satyaveni B. Bommana-Rao	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NJ
72	Djenab Bradford-Kennedy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$301,530	NC
73	Vipin S. Patel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,193	MS
74	James R. Lister	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	FL
75	John C. Lucke	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	NC
76	Michael A. Cook	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	NJ
77	Mark Hom	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	VA
78	Timothy R. Vadeboncouer	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
79	Guy L. Weinberg	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
80	Robert S. Adelaar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	VA
81	Richard D. Goldner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	NC
82	Muhammad R. R Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	VA
83	Janet R. Newman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
84	Majdi M. Radaideh	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	TX
85	David E. Schwartz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
86	Effrossyni Votta Velis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
87	Peggy J. Wheeler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	IL
88	John I. Gallin	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
89	Stephen I. Katz	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
90	Lawrence A. Tabak	National Institutes of Health	Dental Officer	$300,000	MD
91	Francis S. Collins	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
92	Tamara L. Martin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$299,000	MA
93	Stuart X. Stephenson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$298,530	AL
94	Nahid M. Eshaghi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$298,051	TX
95	Kenneth H. Gwirtz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	IN
96	Thomas Anthony	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	TX
97	Salwa A. Shenaq	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	TX
98	Ann Walia	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	TN
99	Norman D. III Boardman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	VA
100	Eric L. Carter	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$295,000	NY

Data Sources

The information provided on these pages is sourced from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI) dataset. Postal Service data is managed exclusively by the USPS . All information is displayed unmodified and as provided by the source agency.

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