Top 10 Highest Paid State Employees in 2013
Zinovi Goubar, psychiatrist, $376,173
Chris Barley, Medicaid administrator, $310,929
Daniel Ionescu, psychiatrist, $296,279
Andrew Eddy, physician, $289,120
Robert Taylor, psychiatrist, $285,552
Michael Carlisle, psychiatrist, $258,281
John Mark Hamill, psychiatrist, $255,263
Robert Karp, psychiatrist, $250,897
Parkash Goel, physician, $248,250
Prabhavathy Mannava, psychiatrist, $247,156
State Employment and Pay Trends
2011: $3.13 billion payroll, $108 million overtime, 55,442 workers
2012: $2.99 billion payroll, $105.2 million overtime, 53,571 workers
2013: $2.96 billion payroll, $111.2 million overtime, 52,618 workers
Source: Ohio Department of Administrative Services
State employee stats:
60,094 workers collected paychecks in 2013
150 made more money than the governor
2,070 made more than $100,000
$139 is the highest hourly rate, paid to a physician
$7.70 is the lowest hourly rate, paid to legislative pages
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Last year, 150 state workers, including doctors, supreme court justices and administrators, made more than Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is paid a $148,315 annual salary, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Administrative Services.
But none of the 60,094 people on the state payroll made more than Dr. Zinovi Goubar, a psychiatrist at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare near Cleveland. Dr. Goubar topped the state’s payroll for the fifth year in a row, earning $376,174, including $205,329 in “on-duty” compensation in 2013.
The top 10 paid state workers are psychiatrists, physicians and a Medicaid administrator. The seven psychiatrists in that top 10 group received on average $100,460 with supplemental on-duty pay. State law requires a psychiatrist to be available at all times at 24-hour facilities such as mental hospitals in case of emergencies.
Of the 150 who made more than the governor, 63 are physicians, 51 are psychiatrists, 23 are administrators or department directors. Less than 1 percent of the state workforce made more than the governor.
Overall, Ohio has seen payroll and employee headcounts declining in the last three years. Payroll in 2013 was $2.96 billion, including $111.2 million in overtime. Payroll in 2011 was 5 percent higher at $3.13 billion, including $108 million in overtime.
The data released Friday does not include employees of Ohio’s public universities and colleges.
While 60,094 collected paychecks from the state in 2013, that includes people who only worked part of the year. The employee headcount in December 2013 was 52,618, down 5 percent from 55,442 in December 2011.
In the legislative branch of state government, 13 employees make more than House Speaker William Batchelder, R-Medina, who was paid $99,142 in 2013. Ohio Senate President Keith Faber, R-Celina, made $99,983 in state pay last year. Topping the payroll in the General Assembly were Troy Judy at $132,539 and Jason Mauk at $132,110. Judy and Mauk serve as chief of staff for the GOP majority caucuses in the House and Senate, respectively.
In the judicial branch, two employees make more than Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor’s $157,969 salary: Scot Ritter, who made $171,321 on staff of the 12th District Court of Appeals, and Jonathan Coughlan, who made $158,492 as the disciplinary counsel for the Ohio Supreme Court.
Salaries for judges, lawmakers, the governor and other statewide officeholders are set in state law.
Overtime costs crept up in 2013 over the prior two years to $111.2 million. The Department of Administrative Services attributed the increase to Ohio Department of Transportation snow plow drivers and others responding to winter weather as well as a staff restructuring at the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities and increased costs in the Attorney General’s office.
Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office paid out $2.6 million in overtime and $2.67 million in comp time last year to its 1,854 workers. Most of the overtime — $2.27 million — was paid in the Bureau of Criminal Investigations.
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