Salaries of State Employees Living in McHenry County – 1

As of March 31st of this year there were 630 people on the state payroll living in McHenry County. We’ll lay out the names, positions and amount received from Illinois state government at the rate of fifty a day.

The salaries will run from highest to lowest.

LUCHETTA DONNA PHYSICIAN SPEC OPTION D DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $217,116.00
HUTCHINSON SUSAN FAY JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT $197,770.71
WEECH CHARLES P JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
SULLIVAN MICHAEL J JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
PRATHER SHARON JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
MCINTYRE MAUREEN JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
GRAHAM GORDON E JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
CONDON JOSEPH P JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
CHMIEL MICHAEL J JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
CALDWELL MICHAEL T JUDGE CIRCUIT COURT CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $180,979.87
ZOPP GERALD M ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
WILBRANDT ROBERT A ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
MEYER THOMAS A ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
MANGIAMELE SUZANNE ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
GERHARDT MARK R ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
FEETTERER MICHAEL W ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
COWLIN JAMES S ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
COSTELLO KEVIN G ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
BOLGER JOHN D ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
BERG JOEL D ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
BEADERSTADT ROBERT ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF CIRCUIT COU CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES $171,906.11
PEREZ JOSEPH M CAPTAIN-STATE POLICE STATE TOLL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY $152,902.50
LEKICH JOHN F CONTRACTUAL WORKER GOVERNOR $142,250.00
LAMB BART E MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $133,280.50
SATKIEWICZ ROBERT R MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $131,539.00
TRAVIA STEPHEN M CIVIL ENGR. VII DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $130,613.33
ZIMMER MARIANNE CHILD PROTECTION SPEC CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES $125,816.41
WEISZ MITCHELL R CHAIR WORKERS COMPENSATION COMM STATE OFFICERS $125,232.00
KAIN COLE S CHIEF OF STAFF GOVERNOR $125,004.00
MURPHY TERRENCE J MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $124,656.90
MYHRE MICHAEL A MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $123,421.86
SZAFRANSKI BRIAN J MASTER TROOPER STATE TOLL HIGHWAY AUTHORITY $119,932.46
WOJCIK RICHARD F CIVIL ENGINEER VI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $119,802.28
PELLETIER MICHAEL SENIOR PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES $119,640.00
HOLT CHRISTOPHER J CIVIL ENGR. VII DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $118,223.00
O’BRIEN RAYMOND M INSPECTOR DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $117,987.01
POWERS DANIEL C RAILROAD SAFETY SPECIALIST IV ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION $117,481.00
O’CONNELL-DIAZ ERIN MEMBER OF COMMERCE COMMISSION STATE OFFICERS $117,042.96
STUMPNER JAMES A CIVIL ENGR. VII DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $115,197.45
KANELLOPOULOS NICK SENIOR PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTR DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES $113,979.70
KONIE MATTHEW E SERGEANT-STATE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $113,917.06
SMITH DANIEL P MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $113,578.50
WOLFBERG BRIAN L SENIOR PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTR DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE $113,472.00
KLYCE ERSKINE W CIVIL ENGINEER III DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $113,353.55
PELLETIER AMY ELISE MASTER SERGEANT DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $113,178.50
GOLD MARCIA S PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES $112,655.27
MINNIEAR MICHAEL J INSPECTOR DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE $112,209.29
HAGMANN CHRISTIAN LA CIVIL ENGINEER III DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $111,191.17
CREIGHTON SUSAN B PUBLIC SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR GUARDIANSHIP AND ADVOCACY COMMISSION $109,350.09

Comments

Salaries of State Employees Living in McHenry County – 1 — 17 Comments

  1. I don’t agree with him and he is quite liberal, but I guarantee you that Mitch Weisz took a big pay cut to take his job.

  2. Why do you post this Cal? What if someone posted what you get for your pension(s) and healthcare from the state?

  3. Always good to know how taxpayer dollars are being spent.

    And this is current salaries, not pensions or healthcare.

    The overall compensation package including pensions and healthcare is much more generous.

    Remember public sector benefits are typically 20% greater than private sector benefits.

    And Illinois state benefits are very good.

    So that 20% is likely understated for Illinois state employees.

  4. People bitch about the county and city cops salary.

    Look at the ISP wages.

    Plus they pad final earnings and get 80% for life and lifetime health insurance.

    These Troopers handle traffic enforcement not responding to violent crimes.

    Illinois is in the top five of highest paid state governments in the nation.

    No wonder we are broke.

  5. Don’t forget that many go to work for a county, work 6 years and vest an IMRF pension. Other city cops and firemen do the same thing. There should be a law that nobody can have more than one state taxpayer funded pension.

    BTW the ISP retire at. 80 % after 26 years.

    Then they get 3% compounded each year on top of taxpayer provided free healthcare..

    On you list is a lieutenant from Disney state at over $200k.

    That is nuts.

    That’s doctor pay.

  6. IMRF pensions “vest” at 8 years, not 6.

    Pull one at that time, and you’d be lucky if your take home was $150 before taxes.

    Also, BTW, Judges Zopp and Condon are retired.

    I believe that if someone, anyone, works a job for 20 years and qualify’s for a pension, THEN gets another job and works many more years at something else and pays into a pension, he/she SHOULD be able to “double dip” and receive them both.

    He/she worked for it, and paid into it over the years and EARNED it.

    I have a pension, and this coming year I can get social security and work as much as I want and earn as much as I want (66 years is the magic age), so I’ll become a double dipper.

    Want the same for your self?

    Work hard all your life, and earn it.

    Bitch then, not before.

  7. Show me a private sector company that gives a pension.

    IBM dumped pensions years ago.

    So did most other companies.

    State employees and teachers should fund their own retirement just like I do.

    I’m self employed, so 15% of my income up to the maximum SS goes toward social security. \

    I have to work until 67.

    That 18 more years.

    You want to bet on whether I’ll see a dime?

    I’d be happy to oppt out of social security and invest that 15% on my own.

    So on top of the 15% the government take, I still have to fund my own retirement.

    Teachers don’t pay social security and the districts currently pay most of the teachers contribuation to TRF.

    With the generous salaries we pay the D155 teachers, they can fund their own retirement.

    We can’t sustain these benefits.

    We should take a look at the benefits currently offered to the fortune 500 companies and that’s what the teachers and public employees should get.

    We shouldn’t fund them having a better retirement than the rest of us.

  8. AZ thanks for the correction and you are right. I typo’d the 6 rather than 8.

    I am in IMRF so I know this quite well.

    I get PO’d at all the guys Nygren has brought in and pays very well.

    I’m told the Calea officer gets 70K and he already gets a big Dep Chief retirement check from McHenry City.

    Based upon his higher salary he will knock out more in 8 years than the clerks making 25K working for many more years.

    Double dipping is wrong I don’t care if you’re State Federal or Local.

  9. Anyone that pays into their pension or pensions are entitle in receiving what they have paid into over the years.

    It’s not called “double dipping.” It’s called being smart and planning for your future in advance.

    Double dipping is wrong to those who pissed their future away and failed in advance to secure their future.

    So don’t be upset at the one’s that are smart.

  10. I believe that the Calea officer worked both at McHenry and LITH.

    The KEY word here, is WORKED, earned his pay, paid into a pension, and earned what he’s receiving.

    If you start a cop job young enough, you can get to 20 years and still be able to do other work in the same profession.

    Past experience is valueable, saving the next employer money in training.

    Look at the court security at the courthouse.

    Most, if not ALL of the white shirts there are former cops from local PDs who have retired from the street and bring their experience there to work.

    Sure they’re making another pension, and paying into it.

    The point is, they’ve worked for it, work for it now, and have EARNED it.

    Good for them, good for the Calea guy who’s making more money than a clerk, and good for the clerk who’s making more money than the people in the employment line or the welfare line.

  11. The Tier I state pensions in their current state are nothing more than political ponzi schemes juiced by legislation in exchange for campaign contributions, votes, and electioneering assistance.

    That’s why there’s Tier II.

    Any shortfall is just dumped on the taxpayer in the defined benefit scheme.

    Noting SURS does have an option for defined contribution.

    Yes we should all become smarter about all the legislative benefit increases to the five State of Illinois pension plans (TRS, SURS, SERS, GARS, JRS) from 1971 – current.

    Yes we should all become smarter about all the legislative benefit increases to police and fire pensions from 1971 – present.

    Yes we should all know every single Public Act that was signed into law by Governors from 1971 – current that contained a pension benefit hiking increase.

    Yes we should know the House or Senate Bill, and the associated roll call including how each legislator voted, for each of those Public Acts.

    Yes we should all know that when COGFA analyzes the reasons for pension underfunding they only go back to 1985, not 1971.

    Yes we should all know about the benefit hiking protection clause added to the Illinois State Constitution at the special election on December 15, 1970 at the 1970 Constitutional Convention.
    ARTICLE XIII – GENERAL PROVISIONS
    SECTION 5. PENSION AND RETIREMENT RIGHTS

    Membership in any pension or retirement system of the State, any unit of local government or school district, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall be an enforceable contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.
    http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/con13.htm

    Translation: Legislators and Governors can juice pension benefits and once earned, the juice can’t be reduced.

    Now here’s a thought.

    WHAT benefits can’t be diminished or impaired?

    The benefits present on the first day of employment?

    The benefits present in the 2nd year of employment?

    The benefits present in the 3rd year of employment?
    etc.

    Because in general state pension benefits and retiree healthcare was enhanced through state legislation in 38 of 40 years from 1971 – 2011.

    Yes we should all become smarter about all the salary increases to TRS, SURS, SERS, GARS, JRS, police, and fire from 1971 – present.

    Yes we should all become smarter about all the collective bargaining agreements at the Federal, State, County, and Local level.

    Yes we should all become smarter about Federal, State, County, and Local budgets and finances.

    Yes we should all become smarter about all the campaign contributions, votes, and electioneering from public sector unions to politicians from 1971 – present.

    Yes we should all read Illinois Pension Scam by Bill Zettler.

    Yes we should all read the Better Government Association website.
    http://www.bettergov.org

    Yes we should all read the Family Taxpayers website.
    http://www.familytaxpayers.org

    Yes we should all read the Champion News website.
    http://www.championnews.net

    Yes we should all read the For the Good of Illinois website.
    http://forthegoodofillinois.org

    Yes we should all read the OpentheBooks.com website.
    http://www.openthebooks.com

    Yes we should read the Taxpayers United of America website.
    http://www.taxpayersunitedofamerica.org

    Yes we should read the Truth in Accounting website.
    http://www.truthinaccounting.org

    Yes we should realize police pensions are taking big chunks out of city budgets and mayors are advocating for police and fire pension reform.

    Yes we should educate ourselves about IMRF pensions and how they are different from State pensions and although financially in much better shape than State pensions are non the less taking large chunks out of municipal and county budgets.

    Yes we should educate ourselves about public sector unions.

    Yes unions have done a lot of good in the past.

    Yes there are merits to a union.

    Yes we respect good work done by anyone, union or non union, management or labor.

    No we should not give public sector workers whatever they want without analyzing the merits of the proposal.

    No, not everyone in the union wants to belong to the union so should be able to opt out of the union in Illinois, just as they can in Wisconsin, without having to pay a dime to the union.

    Yes union leaders are often self serving, such as when they substitute teach for a day to become eligible for a teacher pension while working for the teacher union.

    Yes union ads especially the IEA distort the truth about average teacher pensions, failing to mention average teacher contribution and average years worked to receive the average pension.

    Yes this is just the tip of the iceberg.

    Yes there is work being done as we speak to convince Illinois taxpayers of the need for another massive
    tax hike in Illinois to support public sector pensions and spending.

    Yes Illinois unemployment is near the bottom of the barrel for all states, second to last, at last check.

    Yes taxpayers not in a public sector special interest group are becoming more educated on public sector pay and benefits.

    Yes public sector benefits are typically 20 percent greater than private sector benefits, and in Illinois public sector benefits are in general very good.

    Yes we should learn more about politics.

    Yes we should know the salary history, lifetime employee contribution to the pension plan, lifetime employer contribution to the pension plan, lifetime state contribution to the pension plan (if any),
    pension history (if receiving a pension), and benefit history, for every single public sector pension recipient.

    Then we can judge for ourselves if the salary hikes, benefit hikes, employee pension contributions, employer pension contributions, State pension contributions (if any), and pension payouts are reasonable.

  12. I agree with the above posters.

    These cops pay just under 10% of their salary to their pensions.

    Factor in 8 year vestment, 20 in order to reach the min and at least age 50 to collect and these guys and gals have bought, paid for and earned every nickel and dime.

    I don’t see how anyone can begrudge them from collecting or, for that matter, pulling in another.

    As it was said, there’s a great deal of knowledge, skills and abilities these workers earn and thankfully they share that with a new employer.

    As an aside–state law lets jurisdictions ‘forcibly’ retire these officers at age 65 or 60-depending upon how the locality elects to cut them off.

    It’s not really fair to send them out to pasture and not expect them to work…

  13. I have posted my pension. It’s about $80,000. I pay 1% for health insurance this year and 2% next year.

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