Illinois releases list of top state-employed earners
According to recently released figures, the top earner on the Illinois state payroll last year was the assistant medical director and staff psychiatrist at the Rockford-based Singer Mental Health Center, the Illinois Statehouse News reports.
William Wood - who had a base salary of $201,636 in 2010 - took home time and attendance pay of more than $360,000 due to overtime compensation, besting the earnings of the state's governor and its Supreme Court chief justice. The second highest earner was Robert Stanley Rupnik, the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System's chief investment officer.
Dave Urbanek, spokesman for the TRS, defended Rupnik's employee attendance compensation.
"We need sound investment of money given to us by our members and state (and) to do that, we need professionals that normally would be working on Wall Street," he said, as quoted by the news source.
Last month, public records were released in California that indicated the state's 10 highest-paid state employees earned a combined total of $6.2 million last year, each taking home more than $500,000, Bloomberg reports. Seven were prison doctors or dentists, which a spokeswoman for the medical receiver's office blamed on a rise in the number of retiring physicians.
William Wood - who had a base salary of $201,636 in 2010 - took home time and attendance pay of more than $360,000 due to overtime compensation, besting the earnings of the state's governor and its Supreme Court chief justice. The second highest earner was Robert Stanley Rupnik, the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System's chief investment officer.
Dave Urbanek, spokesman for the TRS, defended Rupnik's employee attendance compensation.
"We need sound investment of money given to us by our members and state (and) to do that, we need professionals that normally would be working on Wall Street," he said, as quoted by the news source.
Last month, public records were released in California that indicated the state's 10 highest-paid state employees earned a combined total of $6.2 million last year, each taking home more than $500,000, Bloomberg reports. Seven were prison doctors or dentists, which a spokeswoman for the medical receiver's office blamed on a rise in the number of retiring physicians.
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