HARTFORD – More than a thousand state employees are paid more than Gov. M. Jodi Rell, according to data now available to the public at www.CTsunlight.org, and a dozen earn an annual salary of more than a half a million dollars.
• In 2008, 1,137 state employees earned more than the governor’s $150,000 salary.
• 70 earned more than $300,000
• 12 were paid more than $500,000. All worked for UConn or the UConn Health Center.
• The highest paid state employee is UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun, who earned more than $1.5 million, or ten times what the governor of the state is paid.
The twelve over $500,000 in annual pay:
| Calhoun, James A | University of Connecticut | 1,586,107.08 |
| Edsall, Randy D | University of Connecticut | 1,361,205.66 |
| Nulsen, John C | University of Connecticut Health Center | 889,784.44 |
| Whalen, James D | University of Connecticut Health Center | 846,039.02 |
| Onyiuke, Hilary | University of Connecticut Health Center | 831,989.83 |
| Hogan, Michael J | University of Connecticut | 616,240.47 |
| Maier, Donald | University of Connecticut Health Center | 585,721.94 |
| Deckers, Peter J | University of Connecticut Health Center | 554,542.68 |
| Hathaway, Jeffrey | University of Connecticut | 550,925.07 |
| Fellows, Douglas W | University of Connecticut Health Center | 527,619.91 |
| Makkar, Hanspaul | University of Connecticut Health Center | 510,469.90 |
| Aronow, Michael S | University of Connecticut Health Center | 507,687.61 |
Connecticut state employees are the second highest paid state employees in the country, according to Governing Magazine.
ABOUT CTSUNLIGHT.ORG: Created by the Yankee Institute after a massive Freedom of Information Act request, the site lists where every tax dollar spent by state government goes. Every state employee’s salary. Every retiree’s pension. Every vendor payment by every state government department or agency. All online, searchable, and downloadable.
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