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Annual income: 178 Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice employees earn $100,000 or more

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178 Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice employees earn $100,000 or more annually in Illinois, according to data gathered by the Illinois Comptroller Office.

The highest annual salary earned among Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice was $251,200 to Lynn Maskel.

The highest salary was $295,400 in 2020.

A report from members of the Federal Salary Council published on May 2, 2019, argued the pay structures within the U.S. government are skewed and federal workers are overpaid.

Downsizing the Federal Government, a project advocating for smaller government in the face of rising deficits, argued over 2 million federal employees earned on average $30,000 more than private-sector employees in similar fields and have more generous benefit packages.

Highest paid Illinois employees with Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.
Illinois employeeAnnual salary
Lynn Maskel$251,200
Justin Kwak$227,800
Eric Childs$160,300
Cynthia Robles$160,000
Ernesto Mota$158,400
Tresa Dunbar$153,600
Janice Evans$150,300
Romulus Jordan$149,100
Kevin Whitson$142,900
Robert Price$140,700
Randall Barbee$138,900
King Gaston$138,900
Jolene Harbaugh$138,200
David Loveless$138,100
Dianna Kucera$138,000
Igaree Lane$137,900
Jonathan Warshawsky$136,500
Christine Rothwell$135,300
Darrick Campbell$135,200
Tony Ballard$134,700
Darrell Johnson$134,600
Cherryl Holliday$134,300
Patrick Burgess$133,500
Horace Marshall$133,100
Regina Anderson$132,400
Devin Williams$132,400
Chad Burns$132,300
Bryce Hampton$131,500
Robert Mitchell$130,800
Jose Guzman$129,900
Isidro Molina$129,000
Brendon Gibson$128,600
Frankie Jones$128,400
Monique Copprue$128,300
Dennis Ferrell$128,100
Yussuf Hanidu$127,800
Wendell Vaughn$127,500
Shaque Johnson$126,800
Lawrence Greco$126,000
James Grimes$125,700
Jennifer Jaworski$124,900
Roberto Garcia$124,700
Mark Lewis$123,600
Kendle Jones$123,100
Montez Hall$123,000
Gary Walda$122,500
Michael McGrone$121,800
Jeramie Crisp$121,500
Jared Pennell$121,500
Tyrone Rice$121,500
James Tanner$120,700
David Clark$120,400
Corwin Hunt$120,200
Douglas Syverson$120,100
Charles Roemer$119,600
Thomas Hurley$119,500
Dionne Mitchell$119,200
Joan Sheppard$118,600
Sanjay Dhiman$118,500
Kendrick Woods$118,300
Deon Archie$117,500
Mark Tusing$117,300
William Peyton$116,900
Creo Argue$116,800
Linda Ford$116,800
Joyce Nelson$116,700
Lucia Guerrero$116,400
Clarence McGee$116,000
Patrick Mings$115,900
Jeff Sperekas$115,700
St Anthony Lloyd$115,500
Kevin Porter$115,500
Gusten Wallace$115,500
Thomas Pattee$114,500
Beverly Wilcher$114,500
Anita Bazile-Sawyer$114,300
Chad Martin$114,300
Stephen Walker$114,200
Carla Henry$113,900
Peter Wessel$113,300
Janice Watson$113,200
Cynthia Barnes$112,800
Lanita Archie$112,700
Orlando Berdiel$112,600
John Kelly$112,500
Quetzalcoatl Martinez$112,500
John Rosas$112,500
David Schock$112,500
Holly Comer$112,400
Larry Rix$112,300
Michael Weatherspoon$112,300
William Jones$112,200
Neangela Dixon$112,100
Bambi Bethel-Leitschuh$112,000
Robert Lovejoy$111,800
Geroska Gay$111,600
Cecilia Ruffin$111,600
Karen Holmes$111,400
Robert Vickery$111,200
Amanda Crabb$110,900

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