Indiana state government salary

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This page describes the compensation, salaries, and benefits that Indiana's public employees receive from state and local government.

Thanks to www.indystar.com, citizens have a public employee salary database available to them, found at this link.

Salaries of Purdue University employees are updated annually at High Ed Salaries.

• Indiana University's basketball coach, Tom Crean, earns $600,000 and is the highest paid public employee in the state. With benefits, his compensation is over $2.3 million annually. By comparison, Governor Mitch Daniels has a salary of only $95,000 per year.^[1]

The salary of Indiana's governor ranks 44th among U.S. governors' salaries. The average salary earned by U.S. governors is $128,735. The median salary earned by U.S. governors is $129,962.

The salary of Indiana's chief justice ranks 25th among U.S. chief justices' salaries. The average salary earned by U.S. chief justices is $154,707. The median salary earned by U.S. chief justices is $151,284.

The salary of Indiana's associate justices ranks 21st among U.S. associate justices' salaries. The average salary earned by U.S. associate justices is $149,687. The median salary earned by U.S. associate justices is $145,983.

[edit] Helpful links

• The Better Government Association offers this database of selected public payrolls. The BGA database includes employee salaries for the Indiana Inspector General, the Indiana State Police, and the states of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.

[edit] References

1. ↑ Indystar.com, "Take a look into Indiana's payroll," February 26, 2009
2. ↑ For the year 2008, as found in http://www.indystar.com/data/government/state_salaries2008_search.shtml
3. ↑ The National Center for State Courts, "Judicial Salary Resource Center"

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