Better Pay for MO State Employees
Better Pay for MO State Employees
The state of MO is the lowest paid state workers in the country. The minimum wage has been increased but state workers haven’t received an increase to keep up with the rest of the country. Most county workers’ salaries are higher than their state counterparts. Many state employees work a second part-time job in order to make ends meet and a 10 percent pay increase would benefit the lower paid state workers. This is taken from an article online… link at the bottom
Nearly all of Missouri's 25 highest-paid employees work for the state's mental health agency, according to 2019 salary data from the Missouri government.
Except for Missouri HealthNet director Todd Richardson, the state's highest-paid employees are all in the Department of Mental Health. Nineteen of them are psychiatrists, one is a staff physician specialist, three are medical administrators and one is a special assistant official and administrator. Dr. Sekhar Vangala, a psychiatrist in Farmington, is once again the state's highest-paid employee, with 2019 compensation of $418,569. He earned roughly the same amount in 2018.
Gov. Mike Parson earned $133,821 in 2019. The office of the governor, which employed 51 people in 2019, had the highest average pay per person, at $43,883. The agency with the lowest average pay was agriculture, at $12,095 per person.
For all 75,233 state employees, the average salary was $28,173 and the median was $27,566.