PHX Reporter

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.

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