The number of Pennsylvania state government employees who make at least six figures currently includes nearly 10,000 workers, according to a Pennlive.com report published Tuesday.<\/p>\n
There were 9,751 state employees who surpassed $100,000 in earnings in 2019, the news organizationfound. That number increased by 7.5% from the prior year and has grown by about 27 percent over Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's five years in office, Pennlive reported.<\/p>\n
About one in every 11 stateemployees across all three governmental branches are paid more than $100,000 a year, it reported.<\/p>\n
The total payroll cost for the $100,000 club is now more than $1.2 billion per year, based on 2019 records.<\/p>\n
The highest earners are three people who get paid more than $400,000 a year a Department of Human Services supervisory physician, the chief investment officer at the Public School Employees Retirement System and the chancellor at the State System of Higher Education.<\/p>\n
Others in the earnings top 10 include other physicians, deputy chief investment officers and a university president.<\/p>\n
The earnings can include more than salary to encompass overtime, longevity payments, bonuses and other compensation.<\/p>\n
Pennlive said the administration's own statistics show theaverage full-time salary of the more than 80,000 peopleunder Wolf's jurisdiction was $58,332 last year.<\/p>\n
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