Top 100 Highest-Paid Government Employees of 2021

$409,276.04 AVERAGE PAY

$40.93M TOTAL PAY

The table below shows the top-earning Federal employees in 2021, 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	Anthony S. Fauci	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$456,028	MD
2	Gary H. Gibbons	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$443,456	MD
3	Hubert T. Kim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$421,874	CA
4	Nicholas John Szerlip	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$419,554	MI
5	Neil P. Lewis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$418,882	VA
6	Joseph K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$418,756	AL
7	Robert H. Sherrier	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$418,713	NC
8	Robert Alan Schultz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$418,212	NC
9	John H. Oldershaw	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$416,768	PA
10	Paul F. Lachiewicz	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$416,187	NC
11	Ali F. Sonel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$415,898	PA
12	William L. Holman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$415,141	AL
13	Kamal Itani	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,608	MA
14	Mark N. Hadley	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,284	AL
15	Barton L. Guthrie	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,284	AL
16	Winfield S. Fisher	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,284	AL
17	Rathnakara M. Sherigar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,169	VA
18	Thomas J. Helton	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$414,145	TN
19	William S. Gillen	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$413,922	VA
20	Joan A. Kaufman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$412,189	TN
21	Seth A. Spector	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,935	FL
22	Joseph G. Salloum	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,863	TN
23	Frederick A. Luchette	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,681	IL
24	Brian E. Brigman	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,681	NC
25	Tamarisa K. L Narayan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,316	IA
26	Stephen L. Skirboll	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,211	CA
27	Stephen J. Miller	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$411,051	ID
28	David H. Harpole	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$410,972	NC
29	Gregory D. Trachiotis	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$410,898	DC
30	Jonathan David Ha	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$410,146	VA
31	Thomas A. Burdon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$410,133	CA
32	Rizwan A. Siddiqui	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,862	MN
33	Robert S. Adelaar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,800	VA
34	Biswajit Kar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,336	TX
35	Kathryn L. Holloway	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,131	VA
36	Neeraj Tandon	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$409,105	LA
37	William H. Leyva	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,922	PA
38	Paul F. Koch	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,872	VA
39	Y S. Chandrashekhar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,694	MN
40	Diana Hsiungstripp	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,554	FL
41	John J. Moossy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,451	PA
42	Venkat Tholakanahalli	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,440	MN
43	Feroz Maqbool	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,440	OK
44	Lisa A. Brandenburger	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,378	OR
45	Mithran S. Sukumar	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,318	OR
46	Alejandro P. Comellas-Freymond	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,044	IA
47	Asif Khalid	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$408,004	PA
48	Ronald J. Boucher	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,868	OR
49	Peter K. Smith	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,862	NC
50	Patrick Malloy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,758	NY
51	Anthony J. Ferretti	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,424	PA
52	Joshua A. Tuck	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,424	PA
53	Varatharai Mounasamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,423	TX
54	Steven E. Pfau	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$407,164	CT
55	William C. Broaddus	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,963	VA
56	Howard A. Chansky	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,486	WA
57	Nannette Alvarado	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,337	OH
58	Preet S. Kang	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,260	OH
59	Yasser Sakawi	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,213	AL
60	Kristina Gerszten	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,194	PA
61	Peter V. Quagliano	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$406,152	VA
62	Stefan C. Bertog	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,886	MN
63	Joshua Denny	National Institutes of Health	Medical Officer	$405,600	MD
64	Helen Fosmire	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,432	IN
65	Huma Arshad Syed	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,424	FL
66	Said F. Yassin	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,424	NM
67	Harvey P. Insler	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,135	PA
68	Hans C. Davidson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,134	UT
69	Elaine E. Tseng	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,096	CA
70	Narayana K. Swamy	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,060	CA
71	Nicholas J. Giori	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$405,022	CA
72	Daniel A. Lim	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,878	CA
73	Lawrence A. Tabak	National Institutes of Health	Dental Officer	$404,865	MD
74	Mark S. Greenberg	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,839	FL
75	Glenn D. Wera	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,814	OH
76	Vikrant Choudhry	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,774	SD
77	Jeffrey Scott Morgan	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,734	NC
78	Jeffrey R. Ramkaransingh	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,734	IN
79	Ricanthony Rene Ashley	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,686	NC
80	Alia M. Hdeib	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,645	OH
81	Selcuk A. Adabag	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,584	MN
82	David C. Adamson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,554	GA
83	Ryan J. Burri	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,554	FL
84	Bert E. Tagert	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,554	TN
85	Bruce T. Kudryk	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,478	FL
86	Diane L. Miller	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,376	OR
87	Andrew E. Epstein	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,325	PA
88	Ian H. Black	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,145	CO
89	Alfred C. Kuo	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,046	CA
90	Donald A. Ross	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$404,001	OR
91	Christopher Andrew Rippel	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,951	VA
92	Dennis A. Turner	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,868	NC
93	Mark Hom	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,696	VA
94	Odette Althea Harris	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,622	CA
95	Stefan A. Ianchulev	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,544	VA
96	Michael T. Jamond	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,500	OR
97	John F. Rompala	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,500	OR
98	Thomas N. Robinson	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,440	CO
99	Geoffrey E. Jones	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,356	TN
100	Pradeep K. Varma	Veterans Health Administration	Medical Officer	$403,208	CT

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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