Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2017

$314,697.34 AVERAGE PAY

$31.47M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2017, 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	Rachel E. Sherman	Food and Drug Administration	Medical Officer	$390,000	MD
2	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$384,625	MD
3	Shabbar Hussain	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$382,938	NM
4	Edward M. Lucero	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$379,482	AZ
5	Norman E. Sharpless	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$375,000	MD
6	Gary H. Gibbons	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$373,662	MD
7	Zenaide M. Quezado	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$351,026	MD
8	Bradford J. Wood	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
9	Electron Kebebew	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$350,000	MD
10	John I. Gallin	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$348,723	MD
11	Edward G. Alexander	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$346,416	NM
12	Randolph L. Copeland	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$344,766	NM
13	David A. Klopfenstein	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$340,832	SD
14	John H. York	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$340,000	NM
15	Lawrence A. Tabak	National Institutes of Health	Dental Officer	$337,925	MD
16	David S. Schrump	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$335,000	MD
17	Roderic I. Pettigrew	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$334,706	MD
18	Janet Woodcock	Food and Drug Administration	Medical Officer	$334,680	MD
19	Paul A. Sieving	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$332,208	MD
20	Stephen I. Katz	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$331,488	MD
21	Ronald W. Johnson	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$330,000	AZ
22	Michael L. Buenafe	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$329,720	AZ
23	Steven A. Rosenberg	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$329,400	MD
24	Micah D. Nix	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$328,456	OK
25	Edward R. Medina	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$327,075	AZ
26	Louis J. Sharpe	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$325,000	AZ
27	Jean S. Fraser	Presidio Trust	Program Management	$325,000	CA
28	Diana W. Bianchi	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$325,000	MD
29	Andrew J. Mannes	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$325,000	MD
30	John D. Heiss	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$324,000	MD
31	Kevin A. Camphausen	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$320,544	MD
32	Richard J. Hodes	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$320,438	MD
33	Linda L. Yeager	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$320,182	AZ
34	Stephen M. Friedman	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$320,000	NM
35	Deborah E. Citrin	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$317,000	MD
36	Terence H. Hamel	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$316,912	NM
37	Jeffrey J. Hawker	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$316,912	NM
38	Elliot B. Levy	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$315,000	MD
39	Peter A. Pinto	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$315,000	MD
40	Herbert F. Gonzalez	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$313,416	NM
41	Griffin P. Rodgers	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$313,386	MD
42	Joel Jorgenson	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$312,307	AZ
43	Joshua A. Gordon	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$310,000	MD
44	Nora D. Volkow	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$309,389	MD
45	Raymond J. Ryan	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$308,954	OK
46	Walter J. Koroshetz	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$307,500	MD
47	Angelique Pflueger	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$306,496	NM
48	Elizabeth C. Jones	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$306,250	MD
49	Piyush K. Agarwal	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$305,000	MD
50	Chuong D. Hoang	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$305,000	MD
51	W M. Linehan	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$305,000	MD
52	Robert T. Ripley	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$305,000	MD
53	Eric W. Wortmann	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$305,000	AZ
54	Eric D. Green	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$303,864	MD
55	Loretta L. Christensen	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$302,743	NM
56	Henry M. Stachura	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$302,696	NM
57	Maria P. Gobencion	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$301,974	NM
58	Barbara K. McLaurin	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$301,230	AZ
59	Francene S. Gonek	Presidio Trust	Realty	$301,170	CA
60	Ronald M. Summers	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$301,000	MD
61	Lawrence W. Gaul	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,332	AZ
62	William J. Hoffman	Farm Credit Administration	Miscellaneous Administration And Program	$300,261	VA
63	Kinchen W. Ballentine	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,259	NM
64	Brian D. Demby	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,259	NM
65	Adam D. Whitsitt	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	OK
66	Nanetta B. Lowe	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	OK
67	Scott A. Hamstra	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	AZ
68	Kathy S. Lynch	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	AZ
69	Rhodes Neil A. Sun	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	MT
70	Ross D. Luther	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$300,000	AZ
71	Eliseo J. Perez-Stable	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
72	Daniel S. Reich	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
73	Neal S. Young	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
74	James Kevin Gilman	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
75	Julia Labovsky	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
76	Robert J. Lederman	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
77	Richard Pazdur	Food and Drug Administration	Medical Officer	$300,000	MD
78	Christopher P. Austin	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$299,320	MD
79	Antonio T. Duran	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$298,413	AZ
80	Ashkan Malayeri	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$296,406	MD
81	Daniel L. Pablo	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$296,332	OK
82	Stephen M. Bowers	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$296,332	AZ
83	Lee J. Lawrence	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$295,000	SD
84	Christine R. Gerbstadt	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$295,000	MD
85	Ning Miao	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$295,000	MD
86	Jeffrey E. Shuren	Food and Drug Administration	Medical Officer	$294,983	MD
87	Thomas E. Menzel	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$294,412	SD
88	Peter R. Tempest	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$294,412	NM
89	Jack B. Fralinger	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$292,947	NM
90	Eugenio Rivera	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$292,479	NM
91	Mark R. Gilbert	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$292,000	MD
92	Janice S. Lee	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$291,614	MD
93	Robert Christian Ryan	Federal Housing Finance Agency	Miscellaneous Administration And Program	$291,445	DC
94	Hector I. Burgos	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,747	SD
95	Harlan H. Kelley	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,290	NM
96	Esperanza C. Sanchez	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,000	NM
97	Daniel Alexander Dworkis	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,000	NM
98	Jeffrey M. Harvey	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,000	NM
99	Charles D. Schnorr	Indian Health Service	Medical Officer	$290,000	NM
100	William L. Dahut	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$290,000	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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