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Who Makes What
Minnesota Monthly’s 2008 Salary Survey
Compiled By David Brauer, Beth Hawkins, and Joel Hoekstra
Photo by Ross Andersson
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Money talks. But Minnesotans rarely talk money—especially when it comes to how much we make. But admit it: There are days when you wonder how much the guy in the next cube earns, or how your sister can afford a Lexus, or whether your neighbor has a trust fund. How does your salary compare? Take a peek at these paychecks.
Public Service
Tim Pawlentygovernor, $120,000
Jeff Walker
auditor and treasurer, Itasca County, $96,000
R. T. Rybak
mayor, Minneapolis, $94,000
Gerhard Wehr
sergeant, Minneapolis Police Department, $180,000 (includes overtime)
Mark Ritchie
secretary of state, $90,000
Victoria Reinhardt
commissioner, Ramsey County, $64,000
Amy Klobuchar
U.S. senator, $165,000
John Marty
state senator, $31,000
Daniel Papin
community-services director, Washington County, $126,619
Dan Voss
electric-utility director, Anoka, $96,034
Firefighter
City of St. Paul, $69,780
David Ebinger
police chief, Moorhead, $88,000
Dorothy Opheim
health and human services director, Cass County, $86,985
Anthony Andler,
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Health & Medicine
Arthur CollinsAnthony Andler,
Heimie’s Haberdashery
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chairman, Medtronic, $9.1 million
Kay Christianson
executive director, Children’s Cancer Research Fund, $159,044
Denis A. Cortese
president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, $745,384
David Kendall
clinical-medicine chief, International Diabetes Center, Park Nicollet Institute, $206,202
Francis Cheung
chief information officer, Park Nicollet Health Services, $316,293
Richard Pettingill
president and CEO, Allina Health System, $1.1 million
Sam Rice
EMS physician, St. John’s Hospital, $240,119
Shannon Mooney
registered nurse, Mercy Hospital, $62,000
Jeffrey Chell
CEO, National Marrow Donor Program, $403,552
John Peterson
psychiatrist, St. Elizabeth Hospital of Wabasha, $151,437
Michele Fedderly
executive director, Hospice Minnesota, $65,000
Brigid Riley
executive director, Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention, and Parenting, $62,081
Robert Beacher
president, Fairview Pharmacy Services, $279,285
Stuart Sybesma
general surgeon, Fairview Health Services, $622,273
Sayeed Ikramuddin
bariatric surgeon, University of Minnesota Physicians, $453,200
Kevin Roach
general surgeon, Regina Medical Center, $233,897
Nancy Sears
executive director, Dyslexia Institute of Minnesota, $47,708
Cardiologist
$750,000
Oncologist
$325,000
Orthopedist
$300,000
Cardiovascular surgeon
$680,000
Vascular surgeon
$400,000
Sister Marie Seiter
board member, HealthEast, $25,000
Mary Brainerd
president and CEO, HealthPartners, $892,741
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Reader Comments:
A Patrol cop makes more than the governor? Wow...something is wrong with that...makes me wonder what kind of overtime abuse is going on at Minneapolis PD. I looked it up and that sort of thing is far from unusual, I counted two dozen officers make 125+++. WOW.