Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2011

$361,139.94 AVERAGE PAY

$36.11M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2011, 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	$398,322	PA
2	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,788	CA
3	Mithilesh K. Das	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$388,267	IN
4	Neil P. Lewis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$388,267	VA
5	Rakesh Agarwal	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,500	VA
6	Ali F. Sonel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,500	PA
7	Harry J. Robinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	MN
8	Kathryn L. Holloway	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	VA
9	James R. Lister	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,267	FL
10	Gregory D. Trachiotis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$378,070	DC
11	Joseph G. Salloum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$376,408	TN
12	Cielo Maca	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MN
13	Ahmed S. Rashwan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MN
14	Bhavish J. Shah	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MN
15	Jonathan P. Tolins	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MN
16	Juan Valdivia Valdivia	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MI
17	Benny Weksler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	PA
18	Naveed Bari	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	MN
19	William C. Broaddus	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$375,000	VA
20	James I. Fann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$374,788	CA
21	James J. Demarco	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$374,400	WV
22	Preet S. Kang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$370,962	OH
23	Rupal Bandi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$369,862	PA
24	Michael P. Hagan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$368,395	VA
25	Jeffrey N. Rottman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$368,216	TN
26	Dennis A. Turner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,367	NC
27	Lynn A. Crosby	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,361	GA
28	Raymond S. Corpe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,361	GA
29	Morteza Amidi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,350	PA
30	Jeffrey Alan Breall	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,350	IN
31	Brad B. Hall	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$365,303	TX
32	Bruce L. Ehni	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,521	TX
33	Dane Wukich	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,521	PA
34	Muhammad R. R Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$364,423	VA
35	Subhash Banerjee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$363,622	TX
36	Paul G. Amstutz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,991	UT
37	Emmanouil S. Brilakis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,754	TX
38	Owen A. Obel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,754	TX
39	Joseph K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,448	AL
40	Timothy R. Young	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,094	GA
41	Russell D. Meldrum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,094	IN
42	Howard A. Chansky	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$362,094	WA
43	Klemens H. Barth	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$361,123	DC
44	Blaine A. Markee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,703	FL
45	Jennifer S. Jennings	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	NY
46	William P. Gunnar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	DC
47	Dennis J. Callahan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	MN
48	Hubert T. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$360,000	CA
49	Mark B. Ratcliffe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,855	CA
50	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,521	CA
51	Harmon G. Tobler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,003	AR
52	Mikhail S. Gelfenbeyn	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$359,000	WA
53	Alaa A. Shalaby	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,267	PA
54	Narayana K. Swamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,136	CA
55	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$358,055	VA
56	Mark D. Webster	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,576	IN
57	Ernesto Jimenez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,436	FL
58	Moheb S. Moneim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$357,116	NM
59	Craig R. George	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$356,021	OH
60	William L. Holman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$355,156	AL
61	Andrew J. Padgug	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,810	TN
62	Adir Ludin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,788	OH
63	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,764	NC
64	Philip M. McGuire	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$354,715	TN
65	Richard A. Schmaltz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$353,267	MO
66	John M. Coleman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$353,267	FL
67	Islam A. Bolad	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$353,267	IN
68	Wade W. Stinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$352,991	FL
69	Richard M. Terek	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$352,530	RI
70	Walter G. Wolfe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$352,134	NC
71	Allen G. Lang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,593	IA
72	Ali R. Zomorodi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,497	NC
73	Donald D. Thomas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$351,094	IL
74	Nannette Alvarado	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,364	OH
75	Marco A. Zenati	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MA
76	Arby Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	CO
77	Ducksoo Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MA
78	Jorge A. Lopez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	TX
79	Paul Ciminera	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	DC
80	Robert S. Dieter	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	IL
81	Clifford C. Novak	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	MN
82	Gary W. Tye	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	VA
83	Kreton Mavromatis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	GA
84	Donald A. Ross	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	OR
85	Scott D. Simon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$350,000	VA
86	Harold E. Varmus	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
87	Electron Kebebew	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
88	Kaustubh M. Ginde	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,764	PA
89	David H. Jr Harpole	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,287	NC
90	Patrick V. McMahon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$349,216	NY
91	Rajiv Sawhney	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$348,957	CA
92	Gundars J. Katlaps	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$347,313	VA
93	Robert S. Meyer	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$347,254	CA
94	Kevin P. Christensen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$347,165	HI
95	Pasala S. Ravichandran	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$346,543	OR
96	David Yun-Chen Lu	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$345,485	DC
97	Andrew E. Epstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,715	PA
98	Ron Shapiro	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,436	PA
99	Judy Yee	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$344,123	CA
100	John R. Raskind	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$343,267	MN

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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