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Iowa state payroll

Iowa’s state payroll paid $4.7 billion in salary in FY2026, according to Iowa’s Salary Book.

The Department of Administrative Services publishes what the State paid each of its employees in each fiscal year, July to June. 64,707 people were paid through 36 departments in FY2026, with a median of $63,648 over the 64,452 paid more than zero.

Source: Iowa Department of Administrative Services, State of Iowa Salary Book, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The figures are the State’s rows as published, summed by fiscal year and department. CC BY 4.0 · State of Iowa Salary Book

Iowa’s state payroll, FY2026

$4.7 billion
Paid in total: $4,686,033,133; Total salary paid in FY2026.; $63,648
Median pay: Over the 64,452 people paid more than zero.; 64,707
People: A printed name within a department: the same name in two is two entries.; $50.9 million
Travel and subsistence: $50,909,260; Reimbursed to employees, beside pay and not in it.

Every fiscal year the Salary Book holds

Iowa paid its state employees $4.7 billion in FY2026, against $2.6 billion in FY2007, in each year's dollars

Total salary paid in each fiscal year, July to June, as the Salary Book prints it, summed over the people counted. Travel and subsistence reimbursed is not in it.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in the first year bought more than a dollar in the last, and this chart does not say how much more.

Source: Iowa’s Salary Book

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Iowa paid its state employees $4.7 billion in FY2026, against $2.6 billion in FY2007, in each year's dollars. Total salary paid in each fiscal year, July to June, as the Salary Book prints it, summed over the people counted. Travel and subsistence reimbursed is not in it.
Fiscal year	Salary paid
FY2007	$2.6 billion
FY2008	$2.8 billion
FY2009	$2.9 billion
FY2010	$2.9 billion
FY2011	$2.9 billion
FY2012	$3.0 billion
FY2013	$3.1 billion
FY2014	$3.1 billion
FY2015	$3.2 billion
FY2016	$3.3 billion
FY2017	$3.4 billion
FY2018	$3.4 billion
FY2019	$3.5 billion
FY2020	$3.6 billion
FY2021	$3.7 billion
FY2022	$3.9 billion
FY2023	$4.0 billion
FY2024	$4.2 billion
FY2025	$4.5 billion
FY2026	$4.7 billion

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What Iowa's state payroll paid in each fiscal year, July to June
Fiscal year	Salary paid	People	Median pay	Travel and subsistence
FY2026	$4.7 billion	64,707	$63,648	$50.9 million
FY2025	$4.5 billion	64,661	$61,250	$53.5 million
FY2024	$4.2 billion	64,391	$57,696	$51.8 million
FY2023	$4.0 billion	61,002	$58,013	$49.1 million
FY2022	$3.9 billion	65,204	$53,154	$26.0 million
FY2021	$3.7 billion	63,749	$52,714	$10.8 million
FY2020	$3.6 billion	63,798	$51,589	$38.3 million
FY2019	$3.5 billion	60,371	$52,516	$49.8 million
FY2018	$3.4 billion	59,785	$52,610	$49.7 million
FY2017	$3.4 billion	59,306	$52,459	$51.9 million
FY2016	$3.3 billion	58,887	$51,495	$52.7 million
FY2015	$3.2 billion	60,032	$49,445	$52.5 million
FY2014	$3.1 billion	59,751	$49,145	$47.1 million
FY2013	$3.1 billion	59,414	$48,605	$46.0 million
FY2012	$3.0 billion	59,844	$47,507
FY2011	$2.9 billion	60,040	$45,000
FY2010	$2.9 billion	59,040	$44,911
FY2009	$2.9 billion	60,240	$45,109
FY2008	$2.8 billion	60,152	$43,168
FY2007	$2.6 billion	67,557	$38,197

Travel and subsistence is blank in a year where some rows print none, as every year from FY2007 to FY2012 does, rather than summed short. Not adjusted for inflation.

DAS says a person employed by more than one department shows up once for each, “reflecting their total salary paid twice”. In FY2026, 524 rows, $25.8 million in salary paid, are a name the file lists in more than one department. 2 of them, $67,954, repeat the same name’s salary in another department to the cent, the most the year’s total could hold twice. Every row is counted as published.

Every department, FY2026

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Iowa's state departments by the people they paid in FY2026
Department	People	Salary paid	Median pay
University of Iowa	30,529	$2.3 billion	$61,638
Iowa State University	7,269	$587.6 million	$67,298
Health and Human Services	4,917	$312.9 million	$63,505
Corrections	4,256	$269.4 million	$64,270
Transportation	3,112	$194.3 million	$64,618
University of Northern Iowa	2,135	$126.3 million	$54,783
Judicial	2,038	$140.3 million	$56,724
Natural Resources	1,383	$69.7 million	$55,161
Workforce Development	1,098	$73.7 million	$63,242
Public Safety	1,038	$90.5 million	$94,507
Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing	985	$75.7 million	$74,992
Veterans Home	901	$39.8 million	$43,122
Education	725	$51.8 million	$78,210
Revenue	581	$39.4 million	$68,787
Management	550	$55.1 million	$106,267
Legislature	549	$26.5 million	$49,847
Agriculture & Land Stewardship	483	$26.3 million	$56,533
Administrative Services	353	$24.7 million	$69,986
Insurance and Financial Services	344	$31.3 million	$87,361
Attorney General	276	$28.7 million	$96,997
Public Defense	264	$16.4 million	$60,832
Ipers	133	$9.9 million	$67,643
Auditor	121	$9.0 million	$70,548
Economic Development	110	$9.8 million	$88,778
Blind	108	$4.6 million	$52,422
Finance Authority	106	$8.5 million	$84,855
Homeland Security & Emergency Management	86	$7.4 million	$92,266
Iowa Communications Network	69	$6.6 million	$97,061
State	45	$2.9 million	$66,755
Treasurer	36	$2.2 million	$65,602
Law Enforcement Adacemy	33	$2.6 million	$83,114
Governor	29	$2.8 million	$86,715
Veterans Affairs	17	$784,141	$52,712
Parole	12	$948,345	$78,488
Ethic & Campaign Disclosure	10	$584,832	$69,997
Public Information Board	6	$232,628	$33,375

Departments are named as the State prints them, abbreviations included.

The highest paid, FY2026

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The 100 people Iowa's Salary Book paid the most in FY2026
Rank	Name	Position	Department	Salary paid
1	Ferentz, Kirk J	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$7.9 million$7,929,648
2	Haws, Bradley E	ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT	University of Iowa	$4.5 million$4,498,248
3	Otzelberger, Thomas John	HEAD MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH	Iowa State University	$4.5 million$4,483,333
4	McCollum, Ben	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$3.8 million$3,812,561
5	Parker, Phillip J	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$2.6 million$2,613,012
6	Jamieson, Denise J	VP FOR MEDICAL AFFAIRS & DEAN	University of Iowa	$1.8 million$1,785,554
7	Lester, Timothy Frederick	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$1.7 million$1,745,833
8	Rogers, James	HEAD COACH	Iowa State University	$1.7 million$1,714,395
9	Wallace, Seth Brannin	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$1.4 million$1,433,654
10	Bollier, Matthew John	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$1.3 million$1,287,612
11	Jensen, Jan	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$1.3 million$1,261,546
12	Bashir, Mohammad	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$1.3 million$1,255,072
13	Goetz, Beth	ATHLETICS DIRECTOR	University of Iowa	$1.2 million$1,227,602
14	Westermann, Robert	ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$1.2 million$1,206,730
15	Howard, Matthew A	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$1.2 million$1,203,640
16	Parekh, Kalpaj	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$1.2 million$1,192,397
17	Buckwalter, Joseph Addison	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$1.1 million$1,146,440
18	Braithwaite, Raimond	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$1.1 million$1,085,096
19	Dudeja, Vikas	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$1.1 million$1,067,984
20	McCaffery, Francis John	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$1.1 million$1,065,200
21	Eisenberg, Joshua Mark	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$1.0 million$1,046,567
22	Barnett, George Stephen	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$989,536
23	Henrichs, Mark	ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT	University of Iowa	$986,918
24	Greenlee, Jeremy D	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$976,812
25	Fridrich, Kirk Lee	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$956,838
26	Willey, Michael	ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$945,932
27	Yueh, Bevan	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$924,275
28	Policeni, Bruno Adum	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$920,534
29	Olinger, Catherine Renee	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$910,324
30	Fennelly, William Michael	HEAD COACH	Iowa State University	$910,000
31	Van Daele, Douglas Jerry	ASSOCIATE DEAN	University of Iowa	$908,457
32	Pollard, Jamie B	DIR INTERCOL ATHLETICS	Iowa State University	$900,000
33	Fletcher, Steven Lloyd	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$898,982
34	Bell, Kelvin L	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$898,654
35	Nakamura, Yuki	CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$898,612
36	Allen, Bryan	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$893,374
37	Gantz, Bruce Jay	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$883,064
38	Marsh, J Lawrence	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$878,647
39	Hogue, Matthew H	CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$876,986
40	Karandikar, Nitin Jayant	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$872,437
41	El Abiad, Rami Ghassan	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$870,213
42	Kreder, Karl	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$867,331
43	Karam, Matthew	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$863,732
44	Hitchon, Patrick	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$858,460
45	Kawasaki, Hiroto	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$857,505
46	Hansen, Marlan Rex	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$857,279
47	Noiseux, Nicolas Olivier	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$854,845
48	Carter, Keith D	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$845,692
49	Wilson, Barbara Jan	PRESIDENT	University of Iowa	$843,000
50	Windsor, Jimmy John	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$837,003
51	Hemmingson-Van Beek, Marta Jane	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$832,690
52	Karimi, Mohsen	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$823,144
53	Synan, William J	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$814,773
54	Kendrick, Douglas Edward	CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$812,886
55	Shilyansky, Joel	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$812,209
56	Simmons, Jonathan S	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$806,572
57	Ashat, Munish	CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$805,798
58	Dlouhy, Brian James	ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$800,629
59	Kepros, Christopher Michael	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$798,389
60	Sharma, Archit	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$797,489
61	Woods, Levar Mason	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$796,874
62	Nugent, Andrew	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$795,974
63	Russell, Jonathan Foster	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$794,040
64	Wolf, Brian Robert	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$791,515
65	Holt, Joshua	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$767,041
66	Yamaguchi, Satoshi	ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$760,611
67	Negbenebor, Nicole	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$758,424
68	Cooper, Christopher Scott	ASSOCIATE DEAN	University of Iowa	$751,618
69	Brands, Thomas Nelson II	HEAD COACH	University of Iowa	$745,000
70	Elkins, Jacob Matthias	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$740,824
71	Singhal, Arun K	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$737,146
72	Dickinson, William A	VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$735,418
73	Horwitz, Phillip Andrew	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$727,358
74	Brennan, Theresa	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$726,210
75	Pitcher, Graeme	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$719,820
76	Reed, Alan I	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$716,922
77	Singh, Upinder	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$716,346
78	Campos, Javier H	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$714,369
79	Keck, Kendall	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$708,437
80	Reyes, Jody Kay	HEALTH CARE SVCS EXECUTIVE	University of Iowa	$706,633
81	Cuervo, Luis Jaime	INSTRUCTOR	University of Iowa	$706,624
82	Vanorny, Dallas Andrew	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$705,380
83	Skeete, Dionne A	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$704,146
84	Niemann, Jay	ASSISTANT COACH	University of Iowa	$702,132
85	Winokur, Patricia Lee	ASSOCIATE DEAN	University of Iowa	$701,253
86	Chrea, Bopha	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$694,918
87	Burkard, Mark Edward	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$694,400
88	Santillan, Mark Kharim	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$692,843
89	Patterson, Brendan M	ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$692,471
90	Burton, Richard G	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$688,656
91	Ben Jacobson	HEAD ATHLETICS COACH	University of Northern Iowa	$686,922
92	Keech, John Charles	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$685,906
93	Wong, Cynthia	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$680,053
94	Barnes, Tyler Joseph	ATHLETICS MANAGER	University of Iowa	$676,282
95	Nopoulos, Peggy Colleen	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$666,497
96	Jabbari, Ali	DEPARTMENTAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER	University of Iowa	$666,243
97	Greiner, Andrea Lynn	CLINICAL PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$665,051
98	Howe, James Robinson V	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$664,562
99	Panos, Anthony	PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$661,157
100	Kotev, Spas Venkov	CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR	University of Iowa	$657,770

Each a printed name within a department, ranked among the 64,452 paid more than zero. Travel and subsistence is not in salary.

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What this data cannot show

New Jersey's earnings are year to date. Its fourth-quarter releases are its only whole calendar years; its newest release is part of a year, and is never ranked against a whole one.
New Jersey's file covers the State's own agencies. Its authorities, public universities, counties, towns and school districts are published separately and are not here.
New Jersey's pay is what the State paid the employee in the year, across every department that paid them: regular pay, overtime and every other payment, which includes back pay and payouts that fall in the year. It is not a salary rate.
New Jersey's person is the State's own payroll ID, which it keeps from release to release, and the name is the one it prints beside that ID. No page decides that two IDs are one person.
Connecticut: Each figure is the gross pay on the checks the Comptroller published for a calendar year, summed: regular pay, overtime and other pay, as the checks print it. It is not a salary, and not what the State pays for benefits and pensions on top. The file numbers an employment record, not a person: someone who holds two jobs with the State has two records. These pages count records, never people. An agency is the name the Comptroller prints, so an agency the State renamed or merged has a page under each name it was paid under.
Iowa: Pay is the total salary the State paid each employee in a fiscal year, July to June, as the Department of Administrative Services publishes it. It is not a salary rate: someone who worked part of the year was paid part of a year. Travel and subsistence reimbursed is shown beside pay and never added to it. The Salary Book covers state departments, boards, commissions and the Regents universities, and leaves out anyone paid under $1,000 a year, Community Based Corrections officers and State Fair Board members. The file carries no employee number, so a person here is a printed name within a department. The same name in two departments is two entries. Two people who share a name in one department are one.
Minnesota: Every figure is pay in MMB’s fiscal year, July to June: its total wages from FY2016, and its regular, overtime and other wages added before then, which is how MMB defines the total. The file is the State’s own payroll as MMB published it; counties, cities and school districts pay their own staff and are not in it.
Oklahoma: Each figure is the sum of the pay lines OMES published for one of its periods, by report date: calendar years to 2020 and fiscal years, July to June, from FY2021. It is regular pay and every other pay type, not salaries, and not the State’s own share of retirement or FICA taxes. OMES names an employee by surname and two initials and by nothing else, so a name is not a person. These pages count pay lines and dollars, never people. FY2022 is not shown: OMES's monthly files for that year restate earlier months and do not agree; we have asked OMES.
Utah: Pay is what the State paid each employee in a fiscal year, July to June, in wages and other taxable earnings, as the State Auditor publishes it. It is not a salary: the Auditor says the amounts "may only reflect a portion of the reporting period" and are not "the budgeted, contracted, or negotiated wage". Benefits, paid on behalf of an employee rather than to them, and trust and agency disbursements, such as leave paid out, are shown beside pay and never added to it. The file carries no employee number, so a person here is a printed name within a department. The same name in two departments is two entries. Two people who share a name in one department are one.

The full method: How the state payroll figures are made.

Sources

State of Iowa Salary Book — Iowa Department of Administrative Services · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (Iowa) · retrieved November 4, 2026

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