Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2020

$405,468.14 AVERAGE PAY

$40.55M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2020, 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	Edward Garay	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$464,227	PA
2	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$434,312	MD
3	Gary H. Gibbons	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$422,339	MD
4	Hubert T. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$420,402	CA
5	Ali F. Sonel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,426	PA
6	Neil P. Lewis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$413,896	VA
7	William L. Holman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$413,561	AL
8	Robert Alan Schultz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$413,334	NC
9	Kamal Itani	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$413,064	MA
10	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$412,319	VA
11	James I. Fann	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$410,752	CA
12	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,883	CA
13	Winfield S. Fisher	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,442	AL
14	Barton L. Guthrie	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,442	AL
15	Mark N. Hadley	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,442	AL
16	Gregory D. Trachiotis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,426	DC
17	William Spencer Gillen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,188	VA
18	Jonathan David Ha	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,926	VA
19	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,913	CA
20	Robert H. Sherrier	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,835	NC
21	Robert S. Adelaar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,220	VA
22	Richard D. Goldner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,219	NC
23	Phillip J. Patterson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,038	VA
24	Paul F. Koch	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,760	VA
25	Paul F. Lachiewicz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,759	NC
26	Kathryn L. Holloway	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,659	VA
27	Nicholas John Szerlip	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,612	MI
28	Y S. Chandrashekhar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,222	MN
29	Joan A. Kaufman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,131	TN
30	Seth A. Spector	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,949	FL
31	Thomas V. Cacciarelli	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,911	PA
32	Joseph G. Salloum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,877	TN
33	Frederick A. Luchette	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,767	IL
34	Brian E. Brigman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,767	NC
35	Joseph K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,706	AL
36	Asif Khalid	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,640	PA
37	Tamarisa K. L Narayan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,546	IA
38	David H. Harpole	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,842	NC
39	Steven E. Pfau	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,656	CT
40	Rizwan A. Siddiqui	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,984	MN
41	John H. Oldershaw	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,790	PA
42	Peter V. Quagliano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,644	VA
43	Stefan C. Bertog	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,558	MN
44	Biswajit Kar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,386	TX
45	Huma Arshad Syed	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,132	FL
46	Nannette Alvarado	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,009	OH
47	William H. Leyva	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,008	PA
48	Elaine E. Tseng	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,696	CA
49	Narayana K. Swamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,588	CA
50	Mithran S. Sukumar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,454	OR
51	Venkat Tholakanahalli	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,454	MN
52	Feroz Maqbool	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,454	OK
53	Ryan J. Burri	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,370	FL
54	Muhammad R. R Khan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,272	VA
55	Selcuk A. Adabag	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,148	MN
56	Peter K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,056	NC
57	Stephen John Miller	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,817	ID
58	Douglas R. Turgeon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,774	LA
59	Joshua A. Tuck	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,726	PA
60	Anthony J. Ferretti	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,726	PA
61	Varatharai Mounasamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,725	TX
62	Dennis A. Turner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,288	NC
63	Mark Hom	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$402,116	VA
64	William C. Broaddus	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,797	VA
65	Ronnie A. Rosenthal	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,627	CT
66	Patrick Malloy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,502	NY
67	Howard A. Chansky	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,478	WA
68	Obaid S. Shaikh	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,386	PA
69	Yasser Sakawi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,335	AL
70	Kristina Gerszten	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,316	PA
71	Alex Rafael Cedeno-Rodriguez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,312	NY
72	Jean Philippe Austin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$401,038	FL
73	Helen Fosmire	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,590	IN
74	Said F. Yassin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,546	NM
75	Preet S. Kang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,310	OH
76	Hans C. Davidson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,292	UT
77	Ruiz Ricardo Martinez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,110	FL
78	Harry J. Robinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	MN
79	Jeffrey Scott Morgan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	NC
80	John R. Minarcik	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	WV
81	Mark S. Younis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	WV
82	Jeffrey R. Ramkaransingh	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	IN
83	Christi L. Sherman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	WV
84	Robert Franklin Short	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	OH
85	Garros Luigi F. Lagazzi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	VA
86	Waqas Aslam	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	CA
87	Lisa A. Brandenburger	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$400,000	OR
88	Ali E. Denktas	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,999	TX
89	Glenn D. Wera	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,936	OH
90	Mark S. Greenberg	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,889	FL
91	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,784	GA
92	Diana Hsiungstripp	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,784	FL
93	Bert Edwin Tagert	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,784	TN
94	Mary L. Hlavin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,760	IA
95	Ernesto Jimenez	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,668	TX
96	Alejandro P. Comellas-Freymond	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,652	IA
97	Vikrant Choudhry	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,644	SD
98	Alexander P. Dibona	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,564	SC
99	Bruce T. Kudryk	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,564	FL
100	Ronald J. Boucher	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$399,562	OR

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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