The Top 10 Paid Public Employees in Delaware
Here are the 10 highest-paid state / public employees from the calendar year of 2014. To be honest, with the exception of Orlando George, none of these seem out of step with their job duties and/or the employee’s degrees and status (i.e. a Doctor is going to make over 200k, sorry, but that’s the breaks). Even a superintendent making over 200k is not outrageous to me. That Markell is at the bottom of this list at #85 is amusing to me.
People always scream and cry about cutting the jobs and salaries of educational professionals in the school districts whenever education funding comes up. But looking at this list, it would seem to be that the real vacuum cleaner of state money are the State Police and Homeland Security jobs. I guess that comes with being a Police State.
#1. Orlando J. George, Jr., President (retired), Delaware Technical Community College
Total Compensation: $419,267.27
#2. Ekeoma C. Wogu, Nursing Supervisor, Delaware Psychiatric Center, Department of Health and Social Services
Total Compensation: $236,156.90
#3. Dr. Richard Margolis, Psychiatrist, Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services, Department of Services for Children, Youth and Families
Total Compensation: $222,853
#4. James P. Fraley, Criminal Investigations, Delaware State Police, Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Total Compensation: $221,974.99
$5. William T. Ford, Criminal Investigations, Delaware State Police, Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Total Compensation: $221,167.66
#6. Dr. Vincent F. Carr, Medical Director, Department of Correction
Total Compensation: $219,100.18
#7. Mark A. Holodick, Superintendent, Brandywine School District
Total Compensation: $215,043.72
#8. Dr. Gerard Gallucci, Medical Director, Department of Health and Social Services
Total Compensation: $214,975.80
#9. Dr. Dyanne Simpson, Medical Director, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health,
Department of Health and Social Services
Total Compensation: $209,999.92
$10. Brian D. Mulvena, Patrol, Delaware State Police, Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Total Compensation: $208,235.77
#85. Jack A. Markell, Governor, Office of the Governor, State of Delaware
Total Compensation: $171,000.03
Hold on a sec. 75 people make between $171k and $208K. That’s 13 million bucks right there. Why didn’t the NJ link to the full data set?
Why the mega bucks for “homeland security”? Exactly what do they do to deserve this much money? No doubt “keep us safe”. As for Orlando George we, as a state, need to vow Never Again.
Holodick is also the Superintendent who took it upon himself to discourage the opting-out public with some personal interpretations of the law and their rights to legally opt their children out.
Rep. John Kowalko
I really thought the people in the school districts make all the money. That’s what I’m told constantly….
I don’t think $200k for a School Superintendent is exorbitant.
If anything, with the amount of staff these people have and the level of responsibility, they should be paid more. And, the people under them as well.
Richard Margolis is most definitely not worth the salary he’s getting, but, it explains why he works so hard to keep kids out of treatment.
Anyone who thought a Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t: 1) end up being expensive 2) trample on our civil rights and 3) interject itself into every other Fed/State Department, wasn’t paying attention.
DHS needs to be disbanded. We already have an FBI and local law enforcement.
The highest paid state employee in Delaware is a retiree. That’s a “Delaware Way” for ya.
Ditto on DHS. It is a layer of bureaucracy we don’t need.
The problem with superintendents making so much money is that there are so many of them, especially in Sussex where the districts are tiny and close together. WAY too much money wasted on district offices and their staffs. On the up side, at least no coaches at the top like in many states.
Wonder what the mean salary of state employees? I suspect less than 30K
@mouse
Two or three years ago the average was 44K, which is really much lower if you take out all the folks making 150K+ …
@JK: That’s called “earning his money” where he comes from.
I’d like to see TNJ run some stories about the 10 lowest paid jobs in the state. Full time state employees working full time, and wanting to do a good job, making less than 25k and requiring public assistance to make ends meet. TNJ does everyone a disservice by perpetuating the myth that state employees are lazy and get paid too much.
If you saw most state employees’ W2s, you wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I can assure you the employees are not laughing.
Well when you put your daughter in the legislature and she runs JFC what do you expect. Look at people like Robert Coupe a retired Trooper with $100000+ pension and then rehired as head of Corrections with another $100000+ salary. If the politicians really want to do some good why don’t they do a raise for the bottom half? I would rather give a $40000 employee 10% then give all employees 2%, especially looking at the salaries of the top half.
Let’s do a Comparable with the Top DE paid CEO’s or Highest Paid Employees in the Private Sector vs. Public Sector.