NORTH CAROLINA — The Charlotte Business Journal has compiled the annual salaries for more than 82,000 North Carolina state government employees, over 150 of whom make more than $200,000.
From psychiatrists to investment managers to transportation engineers, the state’s average salary was $53,708 in August. That average takes into account salary information for almost 69,000 employees whose annual salary is more than $25,000.
Of those, 160 made $200,000 or more, and the state’s highest-paid employee, Valerie Hillings, director of the N.C. Museum of Art, made over $316,000.
Over 80% of the state’s highest-paid employees who made more than $200,000 work in the medical and mental health fields.
Valerie Hillings, director of the State Museum of Art, part of the Natural and Cultural Resources agency, is the top-paid state government employee with a salary of $316,978.
Check out a searchable database here to find any state government employee’s salary except those in public school, the General Assembly, the UNC System or UNC Hospitals.
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