Top 100 Most Well-Paid Employees

Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2010

$354,110.79 AVERAGE PAY

$35.41M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2010, 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	$395,055	PA
2	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,788	CA
3	Neil P. Lewis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$390,000	VA
4	Mithilesh K. Das	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$388,267	IN
5	James R. Lister	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$377,000	FL
6	Joseph G. Salloum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$376,408	TN
7	John R. Chu	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	AK
8	Benny Weksler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	PA
9	James I. Fann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$374,788	CA
10	James J. Demarco	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$374,400	WV
11	Gregory D. Trachiotis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$373,070	DC
12	Edward D. Staples	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$370,000	FL
13	Rupal Bandi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$366,595	PA
14	Preet S. Kang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$366,595	OH
15	Dennis A. Turner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,367	NC
16	Morteza Amidi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,350	PA
17	Michael P. Hagan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,128	VA
18	Jeffrey N. Rottman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,949	TN
19	Bruce L. Ehni	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,521	TX
20	Muhammad R. R Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,323	VA
21	Ali F. Sonel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$363,767	PA
22	Joseph K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,448	AL
23	Howard A. Chansky	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,094	WA
24	Russell D. Meldrum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,094	IN
25	Brad B. Hall	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,036	TX
26	Dane Wukich	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$361,254	PA
27	Subhash Banerjee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,355	TX
28	Jennifer S. Jennings	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	NY
29	Hubert T. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	CA
30	Mark B. Ratcliffe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,855	CA
31	Paul G. Amstutz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,724	UT
32	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,521	CA
33	Emmanouil S. Brilakis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,487	TX
34	Owen A. Obel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,487	TX
35	Harmon G. Tobler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,003	AR
36	Mikhail S. Gelfenbeyn	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,000	WA
37	Mark D. Webster	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,989	IN
38	William L. Holman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,156	AL
39	Narayana K. Swamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,136	MS
40	William P. Gunnar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,856	DC
41	Ernesto Jimenez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,436	FL
42	Blaine A. Markee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,436	FL
43	Alaa A. Shalaby	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$355,300	PA
44	Adir Ludin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,788	OH
45	Craig R. George	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,771	OH
46	Moheb S. Moneim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$353,824	NM
47	Ashraf Samy K. Youssef	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$353,267	FL
48	Klemens H. Barth	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$352,856	DC
49	Walter G. Wolfe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$352,134	NC
50	Allen G. Lang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,593	IA
51	Andrew J. Padgug	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,543	TN
52	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,497	NC
53	Ali R. Zomorodi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,497	NC
54	Philip M. McGuire	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,448	TN
55	Electron Kebebew	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
56	Harold E. Varmus	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
57	Islam A. Bolad	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	IN
58	John M. Coleman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	FL
59	Robert S. Dieter	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	IL
60	Clifford C. Novak	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MN
61	Richard A. Schmaltz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MO
62	Marco A. Zenati	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MA
63	Donald D. Thomas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,813	IL
64	Nannette Alvarado	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,764	OH
65	Wade W. Stinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,724	FL
66	David H. Jr Harpole	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,287	NC
67	Pasala S. Ravichandran	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$346,543	OR
68	Kaustubh M. Ginde	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$346,497	PA
69	Rajiv Sawhney	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$345,690	CA
70	Robert J. Hariman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,735	FL
71	Peter R. McCombs	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,596	PA
72	Ron Shapiro	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,436	PA
73	Judy Yee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,123	CA
74	Robert S. Meyer	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$343,754	CA
75	Robert S. Perret	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$342,436	LA
76	James A. Wolter	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$342,436	MO
77	Albert M. Ammann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$342,043	FL
78	Gundars J. Katlaps	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$341,546	VA
79	Andrew E. Epstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$341,523	PA
80	Joseph D. Ciacci	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$341,169	CA
81	Kevin P. Christensen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$340,796	HI
82	Ramona Gupta	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$340,448	IL
83	Peter K. Mygdal	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$340,000	IA
84	John R. Raskind	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$340,000	MN
85	Michael Sobel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$340,000	WA
86	Michael H. Heggeness	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$339,719	TX
87	Randolph L. Copeland	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$339,507	NM
88	Mark Hom	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$339,503	VA
89	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$338,505	VA
90	Oran S. Aaronson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$338,207	TN
91	Scott L. Myers	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$338,207	FL
92	Thomas G. Sharp	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$337,576	IN
93	Thomas G. Lynch	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$337,500	NE
94	Peter V. Quagliano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$336,420	VA
95	Beau S. Konigsberg	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$336,415	NE
96	Timothy S. Burke	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$336,236	VA
97	Grant E. Gauger	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$336,123	CA
98	Hester J. Hursh-Castro	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$335,843	TX
99	Byron R. Lais	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$335,703	CA
100	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$335,000	MD

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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