SW Valley Times

Shirley Sorensen earned $42,000 in 2018 working as a vocation rehabilitation counselor for the Department of Economic Security, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic on more than 150,000 employees in the state.

The employee's total compensation is made up of an employee's annual salary with the addition of any overtime pay earned throughout the year.

The highest-paid employee working for the Department of Economic Security—Joanna Kowalik—earned $240,000.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Joanna Kowalik	--	$240,000
2	Michael Trailor	Director	$215,250
3	Bunnie Richie	--	$205,475
4	Pamela Tom	--	$190,000
5	James Hillyard	--	$160,000
5	Sean Price	--	$160,000
7	Sanjiv Rastogi	Assistant director	$149,952
8	Jeffrey Morley	Assistant director	$140,000
9	Michael Wisehart	Assistant director	$135,000
10	Nicole Davis	--	$130,000
10	Fidencio Rivera	--	$130,000
12	Maureen Casey	--	$128,595
13	Susan Kaz	--	$127,611
13	Randall Garland	--	$127,611
13	Andres Kerns	--	$127,611
13	Cristobal Eblen	--	$127,611
13	Vivienne Kattapong	--	$127,611
13	Alan Goldberg	--	$127,611
13	Teresa Pavese	--	$127,611
13	Stephen Fair	--	$127,611
13	Stephen Bailey	--	$127,611
13	Ralph Mertens	--	$127,611
13	Robert Quinones	--	$127,611
13	Foster Jaine Valdez	--	$127,611
13	Nicole Lazorwitz	--	$127,611
13	Jonathan Zuess	--	$127,611
13	Elliot Salk	--	$127,611
13	Charles Combs	--	$127,611
13	Carol Hutchinson	--	$127,611
13	Yosef Schwartz	--	$127,611
13	Daniel Gross	--	$127,611
13	Dennis Swena	--	$127,611
33	Eugene Campbell	--	$127,604
34	Priscilla Kadi	Assistant director	$125,000
35	Heather Noble	Assistant director	$120,000
36	Glenn Tanita	--	$119,152
37	Debra Peterson	Assistant director	$115,860
38	Lynn Larson	--	$115,850
38	Molly Bright	--	$115,850
40	Mary Schumacher	--	$115,000
40	Roberta Blyth	--	$115,000
40	Pearlette Ramos	--	$115,000
40	Cindy Treadwell	--	$115,000
40	Landrum Leah Taylor	Assistant director	$115,000
40	Kenneth Carson	--	$115,000
46	Ryan Riach	--	$110,426
47	Sherri Wince	--	$110,000
47	Anna Boone	--	$110,000
47	Stefanie Schwartz-Jacobs	--	$110,000
47	Jason Sauer	--	$110,000
47	Jennifer Kirchen	--	$110,000
47	Scott Jackson	--	$110,000
47	Rajaram Kollengode	--	$110,000
54	Adele Cook	--	$108,000
55	David Mathis	--	$105,208
56	Molly McCarthy	--	$105,000
56	David Platt	--	$105,000
56	Jeffrey Raynor	--	$105,000
56	Clayton Sikes	--	$105,000
56	Franklin Migali	--	$105,000
56	Mark Chappell	--	$105,000
56	Raymond Colbeck	--	$105,000
56	Doris Stockton	--	$105,000
56	Marcus Wilson	--	$105,000
56	Wesley Fletcher	Program administrator	$105,000
56	Patricia Clark	--	$105,000
56	Johnny Cervantes	--	$105,000
68	Kathy Ber	--	$104,000
69	Tasya Peterson	Assistant director	$103,950
70	Shannon Kavanagh	--	$103,500
71	Nicolette Fidel	--	$103,373
72	Bryon Winston	--	$103,000
72	Stephanie Dowdell	--	$103,000
72	Cassidy Taylor	--	$103,000
72	David Steuber	--	$103,000
76	Garcia Zane Ramadan	--	$102,999
77	Darryl Duke	--	$101,950
78	Albert Barbieri	--	$101,774
79	Jonathan Lucke	--	$100,880
80	Ghada Giliana	--	$100,360
81	Sonya Willis	--	$100,000
81	Sebrina Beckstrom	--	$100,000
81	Steven Pickering	--	$100,000
81	Gregory Pulcipher	--	$100,000
85	Judith Macias-Harris	--	$99,501
85	Lela Wendell	--	$99,501
85	Kristen Mackey	--	$99,501
85	James Ross	Program administrator	$99,501
85	Jill Whittier	--	$99,501
85	Lisa Piedimonte	--	$99,501
91	Winston Hill	--	$98,000
92	Brian Persons	--	$97,685
93	Victoria Navarra	--	$97,500
93	Phillip Jablonski	--	$97,500
95	Ellen Grein	--	$97,399
96	Jason Bernbaum	Accounting manager	$97,000
97	Benjamin Kauffman	--	$96,021
98	Allison McLeod-Konomi	--	$96,000
98	Nakia Goudy	--	$96,000
98	Mae Lora Aquinde	--	$96,000