Published Friday, Aug. 21st, 2015

Editor’s note: The Richmond Times-Dispatch obtained state employees’ names, job titles and salaries using the state’s Freedom of Information statute. As required by law, the state provided information for 103,466 employees. The FOI request for the state fiscal year that began July 1, 2014, and ended June 30, 2015, is part of The Times-Dispatch’s ongoing effort to report to you findings about government spending and the use of taxpayer money. The Times-Dispatch is excluding from the online database the names of 51,798 employees whose salaries fall below the statewide median of $47,500.

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Top earners

	Name	Agency	Total pay	Job	Total pay
	Ronald D. Schmitz	Virginia Retirement System	$930,913	Chief Investment Officer	$930,913
	Charles W. Grant	Virginia Retirement System	$741,630	Managing Director -Internal Asset Manage	$741,630
	Steven P. Peterson	Virginia Retirement System	$608,211	Managing Director	$608,211
	Kenneth C. Howell	Virginia Retirement System	$597,604	Managing Director-Global Investments	$597,604
	John T. Grier	Virginia Retirement System	$589,587	Director Internal Equity Management	$589,587
	Stephen R. Mcclelland	Virginia Retirement System	$563,325	Program Director	$563,325
	Field H. Griffith	Virginia Retirement System	$563,226	Program Director	$563,226
	Irving L. Kron	University of Virginia	$561,099	Professor	$561,099
	Angel Cabrera	George Mason University	$536,714	President George Mason Univ	$536,714
	Robert H. Cofield	University of Virginia Medical Center	$524,345	Assoc VP for Hosp&Clinics Ops	$524,345
	Robert F. Bruner	University of Virginia	$518,900	Administrative - Professor	$518,900
	Bryan R. Gardiner	Virginia Retirement System	$515,387	Director Fixed Income Management	$515,387
	Michael S. Rao	Virginia Commonwealth University	$503,154	President VCU	$503,154
	Timothy D. Sands	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)	$500,000	President VPI and SU	$500,000
	Pamela M. Sutton-Wallace	University of Virginia Medical Center	$500,000	Chief Executive Officer	$500,000
	Paul G. Mahoney	University of Virginia	$495,000	Administrative - Professor	$495,000
	Teresa A. Sullivan	University of Virginia	$494,699	President, University of Virginia	$494,699
	Daniel Whitlock	Virginia Retirement System	$482,993	Program Director	$482,993
	Michael J. Friedlander	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)	$481,000	Administrative - Professor	$481,000
	Thomas P. Loughran	University of Virginia	$473,400	Professor	$473,400
	Patrick D. Hogan	University of Virginia	$472,800	Chief Operating Officer-GA155	$472,800
	Robert T. Sumichrast	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)	$466,300	Administrative - Professor	$466,300
	Randolph J. Canterbury	University of Virginia	$459,000	Professor	$459,000
	Pendleton R. Montague	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)	$454,820	Professor	$454,820
	John Reinhart	Virginia Port Authority	$450,000	CEO/Executive Director	$450,000

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