Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2016

$388,241.31 AVERAGE PAY

$38.82M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2016, 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	David H. Harpole	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,849	NC
2	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,417	CA
3	Hubert T. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,264	CA
4	William L. Holman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	AL
5	Nicholas John Szerlip	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	MI
6	Thomas V. Cacciarelli	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	PA
7	Joseph K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,431	AL
8	Ali F. Sonel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,653	PA
9	Winfield S. Fisher	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,581	AL
10	Barton L. Guthrie	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,581	AL
11	Mark N. Hadley	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,581	AL
12	Mithilesh K. Das	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,359	IN
13	Neil P. Lewis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$398,359	VA
14	John H. Oldershaw	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$397,957	PA
15	Kamal Itani	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$396,849	MA
16	James I. Fann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$395,642	CA
17	Kathryn L. Holloway	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$395,582	VA
18	Seth A. Spector	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$395,000	FL
19	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,994	CA
20	Rakesh Agarwal	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,798	VA
21	Jonathan David Ha	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,700	VA
22	Feroz Maqbool	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,592	OK
23	Robert H. Sherrier	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$394,388	NC
24	Gregory D. Trachiotis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$393,653	DC
25	Helen Fosmire	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$392,921	IN
26	Harry J. Robinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$392,918	MN
27	Dennis A. Turner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$392,586	NC
28	Muhammad R. R Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$391,817	VA
29	Asif Khalid	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$391,530	PA
30	Richard A. Sanders	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$391,277	AL
31	William E. Garrett	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,798	NC
32	Joseph G. Salloum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,767	TN
33	William M. Kuzon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,728	MI
34	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,563	VA
35	Biswajit Kar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,497	TX
36	William H. Leyva	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,497	PA
37	Justin S. Cetas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,431	OR
38	Grit A. Adler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,398	FL
39	Ryan J. Burri	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,398	FL
40	Franklin M. Epstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$389,328	TX
41	Bruce L. Ehni	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$388,815	TX
42	John J. Moossy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$387,584	PA
43	Obaid S. Shaikh	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,497	PA
44	Robert S. Adelaar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,466	VA
45	Thomas Jefferson Helton	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,200	TN
46	Bert Edwin Tagert	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,100	TN
47	Said F. Yassin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,099	NM
48	Huma Arshad Syed	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,099	FL
49	Hans C. Davidson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,066	UT
50	Phillip J. Patterson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,033	VA
51	Edward Hong	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,033	FL
52	Narendra S. Sastry	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,033	FL
53	Michael J. Roach	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,000	GA
54	Diana Stripp	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,000	FL
55	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$386,000	GA
56	Mark Hom	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,680	VA
57	William C. Broaddus	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,582	VA
58	Edward D. Staples	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,542	FL
59	Howard A. Chansky	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,484	WA
60	Ronnie A. Rosenthal	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,412	CT
61	Yasser Sakawi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,221	AL
62	Ruiz Ricardo Martinez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	FL
63	John Charles Lucke	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	OR
64	Ali E. Denktas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	TX
65	Ernesto Jimenez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	TX
66	Charles E. Barnes	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	TN
67	Andrew E. Epstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$385,000	PA
68	Alexander P. Dibona	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,896	SC
69	William R. Carson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,798	WV
70	Paul F. Lachiewicz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,798	NC
71	Charles Y. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	NC
72	Waleska M. Pabon-Ramos	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	NC
73	Tony P. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	NC
74	David R. Sopko	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	NC
75	Paul V. Suhocki	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	NC
76	Suzanne A. Tharin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$384,700	CA
77	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$384,625	MD
78	Patrick Malloy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$383,690	NY
79	Peter V. Quagliano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$382,217	VA
80	Pradeep K. Varma	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$382,084	CT
81	Albert T. Jennette	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,825	NC
82	Donald A. Ross	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,433	OR
83	Peter K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,335	NC
84	Ahmed R. Shakir	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,335	TX
85	Naishadh Brahmbhatt	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,335	IL
86	Laszlo B. Tamas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,330	TX
87	Gundars J. Katlaps	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$381,165	VA
88	Jian-Ming Li	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,751	MN
89	Szabolcs Szentpetery	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,680	VA
90	Fadi F. Francis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,596	PA
91	Paul G. Amstutz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,553	UT
92	Harvey P. Insler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,553	PA
93	Raymond Patrick Jacob	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,553	FL
94	Robert S. Perret	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,553	LA
95	Clare M. Haystead	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,421	NC
96	Julie A. Happe	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,355	MN
97	Suresh R. Mulukutla	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,355	PA
98	Matthew J. Schuchert	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,355	PA
99	Cornelius H. Lam	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,355	MN
100	Emily L. Levin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$380,355	MI

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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