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Laura Whitehead earned $40,000 in 2018 working as an administrative assistant for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic on more than 150,000 employees in the state.

The employee's 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 employee working for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System—Sara Salek—earned $247,925.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Sara Salek	--	$247,925
2	Jami Snyder	Director	$198,000
3	Shelli Silver	--	$165,000
4	Kohler Beth Lazare	--	$157,188
5	Kristen Challacombe	--	$150,000
6	Suzanne Berman	--	$143,325
7	Elizabeth Carpio	--	$132,000
7	Virginia Rountree	Assistant director	$132,000
9	Windy Marks	--	$129,791
10	Matthew Devlin	Assistant director	$126,765
11	Sharon Ormsby	Assistant director	$126,600
12	Mike Sisson	--	$125,000
13	Daniel Lippert	Assistant director	$123,961
13	Jeffery Tegen	Assistant director	$123,961
15	Dana Hearn	Assistant director	$120,000
16	Erica Johnson	--	$117,800
17	Joni Shipman	Assistant director	$116,050
18	Lori Petre	--	$115,000
18	Matthew Isiogu	--	$115,000
20	Gina Relkin	Attorney	$114,588
21	Matthew Varitek	--	$113,772
21	Stewart Campbell	--	$113,772
23	Stacy Westerholm	--	$111,000
24	Ann Adams	Assistant director	$110,000
24	Elizabeth Lorenz	--	$110,000
26	Gregory Honig	Attorney	$108,271
27	John Moorman	--	$105,580
28	Michael Upchurch	--	$104,000
29	Anne Dye	--	$103,000
30	Robert Heppler	--	$100,000
30	Daniel Sieckman	--	$100,000
30	Lazard Flot	--	$100,000
30	Nicholas Seidel	--	$100,000
34	Bret Cloninger	--	$99,500
35	Jakenna Lebsock	--	$98,000
36	Valerie Curtis	--	$97,000
37	Christina Quast	--	$96,500
38	Loretta Mayer	--	$95,469
39	Patricia Krotenberg	--	$95,000
40	Cynthia Layne	--	$94,500
41	Shana Malone	--	$94,000
42	Margaret Laporte	--	$92,500
43	Karen Maclean	--	$92,342
44	Gordon Greene	--	$91,875
45	Lavonne Rosales	--	$90,667
46	Marna Richmond	--	$90,230
47	Lori Boyd-Draper	--	$90,000
47	Thomas Forbes	--	$90,000
47	Karen Grady	--	$90,000
47	John Archunde	--	$90,000
47	Tara Lockner	--	$90,000
47	Benjamin Runkle II	Attorney	$90,000
47	Kathleen Jackson	--	$90,000
47	Heidi Capriotti	--	$90,000
55	Chris Gray	--	$89,916
56	Ethan Sheffield	--	$89,250
56	Laxma Veeravelly	Senior app developer	$89,250
58	Mark Heck	--	$88,950
59	Kari Price	--	$88,888
60	Dawn Johnson	--	$88,514
61	Patricia Dennis	--	$88,000
61	Tatiana Pekina	--	$88,000
63	Concetta Williams	--	$87,500
63	Jonathan Stall	--	$87,500
63	Brandi Howard	--	$87,500
66	Leslie Ross	Attorney	$87,000
67	Judith Walker	--	$86,500
68	Jamie Robin	--	$86,000
68	Marie McCabe	--	$86,000
70	Joshua Beltran	--	$85,983
71	Geoffrey Foden	--	$85,449
72	Michelle Skurka	--	$85,000
72	Pamela Sullivan	--	$85,000
72	Julie Ambur	--	$85,000
72	Vanessa Templeman	--	$85,000
72	Scott Weinberg	--	$85,000
72	Michael Flynn	--	$85,000
78	Michal Rudnick	--	$84,750
79	Michelle Holmes	--	$84,000
79	Billy Graham	--	$84,000
79	Becky Neff	--	$84,000
82	Kara Burke	--	$83,952
83	Ming Chen	--	$83,781
84	Errallyn Rodriguez	--	$83,000
84	Mohamed Arif	--	$83,000
84	Carol Loiselle	--	$83,000
87	Dhavaprabha Ramaswamy	Accounting manager	$82,463
88	Owen Blackshaw	--	$82,000
88	Patrick Fyie	--	$82,000
88	Janice French	--	$82,000
91	John Gallagher	--	$81,000
91	Amy Upston	--	$81,000
91	Brandon Loftin	--	$81,000
91	Ruth Venturini	--	$81,000
95	Julie Leidel	--	$80,707
96	Marshall Wilmot	--	$80,676
97	Joseph Hansen	Accountant	$80,405
98	Gloria Diaz	--	$80,000
98	David Rudnick	--	$80,000
98	Desislava Grosso	--	$80,000