NW Valley Times

The Department of Water Resources paid an average compensation of $62,362 during 2018, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic. Arizona public employees as a whole averaged 5 percent less 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 Department of Water Resources—Thomas Buschatzke—earned $140,000 as the director.

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

Rank	Employee	Job title	Amount Earned
1	Thomas Buschatzke	Director	$140,000
2	Lynne Smith	--	$120,000
2	Clinton Chandler	Assistant director	$120,000
4	Kenneth Slowinski	--	$119,990
5	Michael Collins	Assistant director	$107,000
6	Nicole Klobas	Attorney	$105,000
7	Jorge Cano	--	$98,700
8	Ravi Murthy	--	$98,630
9	Gerry Walker	--	$97,661
10	Keith Nelson	--	$93,026
11	Virginia O'Connell	--	$90,000
11	Jeffrey Tannler	--	$90,000
11	Scott Selin	Assistant director	$90,000
11	Jeff Inwood	Assistant director	$90,000
15	Kelly Brown	--	$89,450
15	Jennifer Heim	--	$89,450
15	Ayesha Vohra	--	$89,450
18	Douglas Dunham	--	$89,250
19	Waleed Aboshanp	--	$88,939
20	Jing-Shing Hsu	--	$87,000
21	Joy Hernbrode	--	$86,950
21	Kimberly Parks	--	$86,950
23	Ronald Holcomb	Senior app developer	$86,000
24	Jose Rivera	--	$84,000
24	Sue Terri Rossi	--	$84,000
24	Rogelio Martinez	--	$84,000
27	Teri Davis	--	$83,596
28	Nathan Harris	--	$82,000
29	Spence Nicole Gibson	--	$80,527
30	Lisa Williams	--	$80,088
31	Jeff Trembly	--	$80,071
32	Joseph Grana	--	$80,000
32	Bani Ellie Hashem	--	$80,000
32	Adam Raczynski	--	$80,000
35	Janet Miller	--	$78,000
35	Karen Fisher	--	$78,000
37	Elizabeth Logan	--	$77,176
37	Stella Murillo	--	$77,176
39	Daniel Fielder	--	$75,000
39	Douglas Maceachern	--	$75,000
39	Vineetha Kartha	--	$75,000
39	David McKay	--	$75,000
43	Dianne Yunker	--	$74,520
44	Donna Calderon	--	$74,000
44	Einav Henenson	--	$74,000
46	Hugo Perea	--	$73,500
47	Justin Clark	--	$73,000
48	David Keadle	Water resources specialist	$71,800
49	Brian Cosson	--	$70,971
50	Steven Rascona	--	$70,617
51	Brian Conway	--	$70,544
51	Paul Ivanich	--	$70,544
53	Jeri McAnerny	Administrative services officer	$70,000
53	Bret Esslin	--	$70,000
53	Rabi Gyawali	--	$70,000
56	Stewart Sally Lee	Administrative services officer	$69,000
56	Natalie Mast	--	$69,000
56	Glen Buettner	--	$69,000
59	Karen Modesto	Water resources specialist	$68,020
60	Suzanne Sarpong	Water resources specialist	$68,000
60	Arash Nadri	--	$68,000
62	Richard Obenshain	Water resources specialist	$67,144
63	Tracey Carpenter	--	$66,360
64	Stefanie Smallhouse	--	$65,544
65	Tito Comparan	--	$65,447
66	Lisa Dubas	Water resources specialist	$65,354
67	Reuben Teran	--	$65,000
68	Linda Colwell	--	$63,000
68	Olga Hart	--	$63,000
70	Ezra Hazell	Senior app developer	$62,000
71	Ryan Jackisch	--	$60,588
72	Craig Brown	Water resources specialist	$60,452
73	Hilary Morgan	--	$60,000
73	Michael Shelton	Water resources specialist	$60,000
75	Michelle Moreno	Administrative services officer	$58,825
76	Lyman Stiles	Water resources specialist	$58,000
76	Caleb Schrank	--	$58,000
78	Shannon Reif	Water resources specialist	$57,525
79	Mark Perez	Water resources specialist	$57,500
80	Guadalupe Beimer	--	$57,000
80	Kyle Miller	--	$57,000
82	John Mawarura	--	$56,267
83	Lovonte Owens	--	$56,000
83	Jacob Nelson	Application developer	$56,000
85	Michael Ball	Water resources specialist	$55,856
86	Ana Marquez	Administrative services officer	$55,650
87	Jennifer Marteniez	--	$55,500
88	Kymberly Luttermoser	Water resources specialist	$55,216
89	Kevin Hadder	Water resources specialist	$55,175
90	John Riggins	Water resources specialist	$55,000
91	James Dieckhoff	--	$54,700
91	Scott Stuk	--	$54,700
93	Lori Cason	Water resources specialist	$53,779
94	Elizabeth Heller	--	$53,500
94	Fitch Chanel Kirkpatrick	Water resources specialist	$53,500
96	Amy Levy	Water resources specialist	$52,885
97	Sylvia Valdez	Water resources specialist	$51,681
98	Susan Montoya	Water resources specialist	$50,885
98	Kevin Crego	Water resources specialist	$50,885
98	Nicolas Valverde	Water resources specialist	$50,885