South Pima News

Darian Judd earned $41,678 in 2018 working as a highway operations technician for the Department of Transportation, 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 Department of Transportation—John Halikowski—earned $150,000 as the director.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	John Halikowski	Director	$150,000
2	Joseph Omer	--	$145,000
3	Dallas Hammit	--	$142,000
4	Kevin Biesty	--	$139,500
5	Steve Boschen	Assistant director	$136,582
6	Brent Cain	Assistant director	$135,507
7	Floyd Roehrich	--	$135,135
8	Martha Ward	Assistant director	$135,000
8	Eric Jorgensen	Assistant director	$135,000
8	Kelly Mero	--	$135,000
11	Robert Samour	--	$134,973
12	Steven West	Assistant director	$130,000
13	Sonya Herrera	Assistant director	$128,000
13	Thomas Lane	Assistant director	$128,000
13	Gregory Byres	Assistant director	$128,000
16	Stephen O'Brien	--	$125,500
17	Randolph Everett	--	$125,494
18	Timothy Newton	--	$125,000
18	Kismet Weiss	--	$125,000
20	Barry Crockett	--	$124,374
20	James Windsor	--	$124,374
20	Todd Emery	--	$124,374
20	Jesus Gutierrez	--	$124,374
24	William Miller	--	$122,000
25	Keith Killough	--	$120,750
26	Robert Branham	--	$120,000
26	Vivien Lattibeaudiere	--	$120,000
26	Clemenc Ligocki	--	$120,000
29	Stacy Guillen	--	$119,000
30	Julie Kliewer	--	$118,689
31	Annette Riley	--	$118,000
31	Gail Lewis	--	$118,000
33	Jill Dusenberry	--	$117,000
34	Robert Stieve	--	$116,000
35	Lisa Danka	--	$115,000
35	Keith Fallstrom	--	$115,000
35	Timothy Tait	--	$115,000
38	Paul O'Brien	--	$113,400
39	Alvin Stump	--	$110,315
39	Audra Merrick	--	$110,315
41	Matthew Moul	--	$110,313
41	Roderick Lane	--	$110,313
43	David Eberhart	--	$110,211
44	Jeffery Stanhope	--	$110,000
44	Tamara Price	--	$110,000
44	Patrick Stone	--	$110,000
44	Katherine Proctor	--	$110,000
44	Melissa Manfrida	--	$110,000
44	Iqbal Md Hossain	--	$110,000
44	Chad Campbell	--	$110,000
44	Edward Howard	--	$110,000
44	Michael Denbleyker	--	$110,000
53	Devin Darlek	--	$109,000
54	Jodi Rooney	--	$108,355
54	Heather Franek	Program administrator	$108,355
54	Michael Cryderman	Program administrator	$108,355
57	William Harmon	--	$108,152
57	Paul Patane	--	$108,152
57	Jerry James	--	$108,152
57	Maysa Hanna	--	$108,152
57	Hanumantha Madhu Reddy	--	$108,152
57	Susan Anderson	--	$108,152
57	Scott Beck	--	$108,152
64	Paula Gibson	--	$108,000
65	Melissa Wynn	Program administrator	$105,000
65	Raul Amavisca	--	$105,000
65	John Carlson	--	$105,000
65	Ian Kaufman	--	$105,000
65	Vasile Samartinean	--	$105,000
65	Rebecca Kirchler	--	$105,000
71	Reza Karimvand	--	$104,907
72	Mark Sanders	--	$102,000
73	Mark Darmer	--	$101,593
73	Anita Kleinman	--	$101,593
75	Muthukumar Ramaswamy	--	$100,275
76	Ann Mary Roder	Program administrator	$100,000
76	Jay Chilton	Program administrator	$100,000
76	Gary McCarthy	--	$100,000
79	Carmelo Acevedo	--	$99,911
80	John Hetzel	--	$99,501
81	George Williams	--	$99,000
82	Gregory Hill	--	$98,122
83	Victor Yang	--	$98,000
84	Derek Arnson	Program administrator	$97,852
84	Steven Ramsey	--	$97,852
84	Kerry Wilcoxon	--	$97,852
87	Johnathon Sullinger	--	$97,456
88	Scott Nodes	--	$97,336
89	Donald Hale	--	$97,000
90	Pe-Shen Yang	--	$96,843
91	Mark Poppe	--	$96,764
92	Thomas Goodman	--	$96,514
93	Douglas Nick	--	$96,490
94	Jason Decker	--	$96,305
95	Chad Auker	--	$96,296
95	Brenden Foley	--	$96,296
97	Rimpal Shah	--	$96,000
97	Lisa Pounds	Program administrator	$96,000
99	Robert Lajeunesse	--	$95,500
99	James Gomes	--	$95,500