Game and Fish Dept pays an average compensation of $49,556 during 2018

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By PHX Reporter

Jul 31, 2020

The Game and Fish Dept paid an average compensation of $49,556 during 2018, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic. Arizona public employees as a whole averaged 20 percent more with a compensation of $59,597. Total compensation is made up of an employee's annual salary with the addition of any overtime pay earned throughout the year.

The highest-paid public employee working for the Game and Fish Dept—Ty Gray—earned $160,000 as the director.

When calculating average compensation, only employees categorized as full time were included.

The 100 highest earners working for the Game and Fish Dept in 2018

Rank	Employee	Job title	Amount Earned
1	Ty Gray	Director	$160,000
2	Tom Finley	--	$143,000
3	James Devos	Assistant director	$130,000
4	Douglas Cummings	Assistant director	$129,000
5	Francis Sweeney	--	$126,000
6	Robert Guiles	Assistant director	$125,000
6	Frank Komadina	--	$125,000
8	Craig McMullen	Assistant director	$123,000
9	Samuel Barber	--	$118,000
10	Michael Why	--	$115,500
11	Fred Bloom	--	$110,226
12	Thomas Kmetz	--	$101,370
13	Diana Shaffer	--	$97,894
14	Kevin Hodgkins	--	$97,000
15	Joyce Francis	--	$91,503
16	Sharon Crouch	--	$91,490
16	Josh Avey	--	$91,490
16	Gene Elms	--	$91,490
16	Christopher Cantrell	--	$91,490
16	Jennifer Stewart	--	$91,490
16	Mark Weise	--	$91,490
16	Jonathan Cooley	--	$91,490
16	Edward Sanchez	--	$91,490
24	Gordon Bleyl	--	$91,180
25	Jay Cook	--	$91,000
25	Chris Bagnoli	--	$91,000
27	Raul Vega	--	$90,500
28	James Lavin	--	$89,000
29	Larry Phoenix	--	$88,802
30	Scott Poppenberger	--	$87,000
30	Esther Rubin	--	$87,000
30	Kevin Kinsall	--	$87,000
33	Christian Gunter	--	$86,254
34	Kellie Tharp	--	$86,000
35	Robert Schoepe	--	$85,500
36	Marianne Cox	--	$85,000
36	Michael Raum	--	$85,000
36	Keith Knutson	--	$85,000
39	Van Michael Sande	--	$84,000
40	Dean Pokrajac	Application developer	$83,574
41	John Wyatt	Application developer	$83,110
42	Sharon Carson	Application developer	$82,624
43	Rachel Gottlieb	--	$82,000
43	Michael Sumner	--	$82,000
45	Kelly Alkhoury	Accounting supervisor	$80,000
46	Craig Heath	Wildlife manager	$79,576
47	Joshua Hurst	--	$79,000
47	Clayton Crowder	--	$79,000
47	William Andres	--	$79,000
50	Carol Coleman	--	$78,750
51	Heidi Rayment	Administrative services officer	$78,000
51	Kristen Micurescu	--	$78,000
53	Michael Ingraldi	--	$77,700
54	Joseph Marcino	--	$77,469
55	Kristy Sanchez	--	$76,976
56	Ken Dinquel	--	$76,871
57	Laura Canaca	--	$76,348
58	Timothy Baumgarten	--	$76,228
59	Van William Pelt	--	$76,042
60	John Hervert	--	$75,873
61	Mark Stewart	--	$74,981
62	Thomas Jones	--	$74,644
63	Julie Carter	--	$74,584
64	Anthony Robinson	--	$74,400
65	Jon Shumaker	Administrative services officer	$74,088
66	Carl Lutch	--	$73,631
67	James Driscoll	--	$73,557
68	Albert Eiden	--	$73,500
68	Geoffrey Rabinovich	--	$73,500
70	James Simmons	--	$73,361
71	James Heffelfinger	--	$73,181
72	William Knowles	--	$72,846
73	Kyle Cooper	Wildlife manager	$72,841
74	Amber Munig	--	$72,178
75	Estella Gomez	Human resources manager	$72,141
76	Tara Duncan	--	$72,000
76	Charles Pliszka	Application developer	$72,000
78	Shawn Wagner	--	$71,898
79	Jarrod McFarlin	--	$71,861
80	Francisco Abarca	--	$71,739
81	Donald Larsen	--	$71,500
82	Scott Gurtin	--	$71,450
83	David Clark	--	$71,400
84	Jill Bright	Wildlife specialist	$71,322
85	Darren Tucker	--	$71,302
86	Timothy Holt	--	$70,870
87	Cari Mausling	Administrative services officer	$70,620
88	Leander Luedeker	Wildlife manager	$70,436
89	Russell Engel	--	$70,222
90	Patrick Crouch	--	$70,146
91	Marc Dahlberg	--	$70,049
92	William David	--	$70,000
92	Sabra Tonn	--	$70,000
92	Matthew Clement	--	$70,000
92	James Ruff	--	$70,000
96	John Dickson	Wildlife manager	$69,990
97	Thomas Bagley	Wildlife manager	$69,965
98	Edwin Juarez	Wildlife specialist	$69,810
99	Kathryn Smith	--	$69,581
100	Susan MacVean	Wildlife specialist	$69,199