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Va., Md. agency leaders retain six-figure salaries

By Brian Hughes
Published January 12, 2010 5:00am ET
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Maryland department head salaries  
Name
Salary
Job Title
Department
Nancy Grasmick
$195,000
superintendent
state schools
John Colmers
$161,930
secretary
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Thelma Foster
$161,930
secretary
Department of Budget and Management
Alexander Sanchez
$155,000
secretary
Labor, Licensing and Regulation
Beverley Swaim-Staley
$140,460
secretary
Department of Transportation
Virginia department head salaries  
Name
Salary
Job Title
Department
Daniel Lavista
$234,000
executive director
State Council of Higher Education
Karen Remley Onufer
$191,906
commissioner
Department of Health
David Ekern
$189,280
commissioner
Department of Transportation
Daniel Timberlake
$150,000
director
Department of Planning and Budget
Dolores Esser
$124,741
commissioner
Employment Commission

Dozens of department heads in Maryland and Virginia will draw six-figure salaries this year — and so will many of their underlings — despite slashing jobs and ditching public projects to avoid tumbling further into the red.

In Maryland, administration leaders will make roughly $160,000 this fiscal year. That includes newly appointed Secretary of Labor Alexander Sanchez, whose salary was recently bumped up $15,000 higher than that of his predecessor, despite the state’s 7 percent unemployment rate.

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