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186 Employees On the department's payroll in the 2025 fourth-quarter release.
$69,243 Median pay Over the 186 paid in 2025.
$13.6 million Total payroll $13,559,182 Everything the State paid them in 2025.
$0 Overtime Part of the total, as the State published it. Every release 2 more columns on a wider screen
Chief Executive: employees, median and total pay in every release of New Jersey's state payroll Release Employees Median pay Total payroll Overtime January–June 2026 208 $32,375 $6.8 million $0 2025 186 $69,243 $13.6 million $0 2024 198 $60,655 $13.3 million $803 2023 185 $49,897 $10.8 million $0 2022 184 $49,042 $10.2 million $375 2021 151 $59,004 $9.9 million $4,419 2020 133 $62,840 $9.8 million $0 2019 143 $50,504 $9.0 million $3,188 2018 174 $46,442 $8.9 million $2,866 2017 122 $48,584 $6.8 million $0 2016 139 $50,480 $7.8 million $0 2015 152 $51,605 $9.1 million $0 2014 155 $46,061 $9.1 million $0 2013 156 $44,920 $9.2 million $0 2012 162 $47,771 $9.2 million $0 2011 150 $50,011 $8.7 million $0 2010 189 $31,777 $7.8 million $0
Year to date at each release’s date: a fourth-quarter release is a whole year, and any other is part of one.
Everyone in Chief Executive in 2025, by pay Ranked by year-to-date pay in the 2025 fourth-quarter release, the most first. Each name is the one the State prints in its newest release, and links to every record under that payroll ID.
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Chief Executive: its people in 2025, ranked by pay, 1 to 100 of 186 Rank Name Title, spelled out Title as printed Overtime Total pay 1 Garrenger, Robert L AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $248,627 2 Gunaratna, Mahen P DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS $0 $210,919 3 Zeveloff, Dennis AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $209,195 3 Hillmann, Timothy F CHIEF OF STAFF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY $0 $209,195 3 McDonnell, Kate AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $209,195 6 Creuz, Aaron J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $194,253 7 Lagos, Stephanie E AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 7 Quispe, Emy A AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 7 Deangelo, Michelle S AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 7 Field, Robert K AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 7 Hermann, Alexandria FEDERAL LIAISON OFFICER $0 $189,272 7 Parker, Samantha V AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 7 Akhter, Assad R AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $189,272 14 Odonnell, Leigh AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $184,291 15 Johnson, Jayne AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $180,077 16 Cannella, Carolyn AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $179,789 17 Butler, John AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $174,330 18 Murphy, Philip D GOVERNOR $0 $174,329 19 Miller, Eric D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $169,349 20 Marco, Bryan A AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $167,050 21 Smith, Dorian J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $163,218 22 McGee, Shannon M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $162,069 23 Fearon, Jennifer B AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $155,786 24 Thangaraj, Preethy N AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $154,406 25 Kovach-Orr, Samuel AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $153,257 26 Ashley, Stephanie D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $150,192 27 Guervil, Marie M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $150,153 28 Guillemette, Mary E Executive Assistant 4 EXEC ASST 4 $0 $148,738 29 Collins, Leila S AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $147,126 30 Rivera, Bonney L Executive Assistant 4 EXEC ASST 4 $0 $142,142 31 Smallens, Ziya M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $134,483 32 Brafman, Sarah N AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $132,491 33 McNamara, Dillon T AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $131,418 34 Brophy, Eric D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $129,621 35 Lalicon, Lauren L AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $129,502 35 Doherty, Marycecili A AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $129,502 35 Martes, Krishna AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $129,502 35 Matos-Moran, Robert L AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $129,502 39 Mulroy, Devin AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $128,873 40 Russak, David J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $123,372 41 Scorsolini, Lisa M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $122,605 42 Torres, Edwin J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $116,552 43 Affrunti, Michael J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $110,863 44 Sidoti, Joanne M PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER $0 $109,579 44 Patel, Meet AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $109,579 44 Martin, Eric D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $109,579 47 Lattimer, Kiah M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $109,387 48 Govindarajan, S AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $108,046 49 Belardino, Luann Executive Assistant 3 EXEC ASST 3 $0 $107,871 50 Adelman, Dana L AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $106,513 51 Jones, Tyler A AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $103,448 52 Spiegel, Jennifer C AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $103,065 53 Krasutsky, Alexander AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $102,500 54 Anderson, Matthew J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $100,900 55 Fassu-Nehemi, Athina AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $94,636 56 Rizvi, Awn AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $94,253 57 Camhi, Natasha T AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $93,184 58 Farmer, Dajanae T AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $90,996 59 Grosso, Ryan M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $90,939 60 Garbarino, Margaret J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Lopresti, Sophia T AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Randall, Sherron AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Moraesdarosacama, Pye AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Vasquez, Daron D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Goetz, Alexandra N AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Porter, Stella B AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 60 Ortiz-Colon, E AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $89,655 68 Garcia, Andrea N AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $86,015 69 Taylor, Lance E AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 Clayton, Kenneth D AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 Williams, Aaron A AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 Hirsch, Jacob W AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 Hundley, Richard J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 Montes, Carolina AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 69 McNeil, Rebecca J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $84,674 76 Petersen, Rita F Executive Assistant 2 EXEC ASST 2 $0 $82,726 76 Ottavi, Dawn Executive Assistant 2 EXEC ASST 2 $0 $82,726 78 Wojcik, Sabrina J AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $82,184 79 Hurley, Daniel K AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $82,000 80 Mejia, Christian S AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $79,693 81 Blank, Edan AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $79,502 82 Crowther, Leana C AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $75,950 83 Petinos, Regina C AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $74,713 84 Barry, Caitlin K AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $73,180 85 Sheth, Kiran AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $72,893 86 Rotondo, Angela AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $72,720 87 Benedetto, Jaime A Executive Assistant 1 EXEC ASST 1 $0 $71,959 88 Saults, Jamie M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,732 88 Williams, Anojioula K AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,732 88 Singh, Rehat AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,732 88 Finnerty, Jack M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,732 88 Muthangya, Alice W AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,732 93 Pilalides, Ted E AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $69,573 94 Salvatore, Claudia N Executive Assistant 1 EXEC ASST 1 $0 $68,912 94 Knighton, Marquita L Executive Assistant 1 EXEC ASST 1 $0 $68,912 96 Patel, Toral AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $67,474 97 Clark, Chacira AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $67,398 98 Breeze, Madeline R SPECIAL SERVICES $0 $67,000 99 Scott, Kemani A SPECIAL SERVICES $0 $66,800 100 Doan, Zachary M AIDE TO THE GOVERNOR $0 $65,556
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