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Minnesota Monthly’s 2008 Salary Survey

Who Makes What
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Money talks. But Minnesotans rarely talk money—especially when it comes to how much we make. But admit it: There are days when you wonder how much the guy in the next cube earns, or how your sister can afford a Lexus, or whether your neighbor has a trust fund. How does your salary compare? Take a peek at these paychecks.





Public Service

Tim Pawlenty

governor, $120,000

Jeff Walker
auditor and treasurer, Itasca County, $96,000

R. T. Rybak
mayor, Minneapolis, $94,000

Gerhard Wehr
sergeant, Minneapolis Police Department, $180,000 (includes overtime)

Mark Ritchie
secretary of state, $90,000

Victoria Reinhardt
commissioner, Ramsey County, $64,000

Amy Klobuchar
U.S. senator, $165,000

John Marty
state senator, $31,000

Daniel Papin
community-services director, Washington County, $126,619

Dan Voss
electric-utility director, Anoka, $96,034

Firefighter
City of St. Paul, $69,780

David Ebinger
police chief, Moorhead, $88,000

Dorothy Opheim
health and human services director, Cass County, $86,985




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Health & Medicine

Arthur Collins

chairman, Medtronic, $9.1 million

Kay Christianson
executive director, Children’s Cancer Research Fund, $159,044

Denis A. Cortese
president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, $745,384

David Kendall
clinical-medicine chief, International Diabetes Center, Park Nicollet Institute, $206,202

Francis Cheung
chief information officer, Park Nicollet Health Services, $316,293

Richard Pettingill
president and CEO, Allina Health System, $1.1 million

Sam Rice
EMS physician, St. John’s Hospital, $240,119

Shannon Mooney
registered nurse, Mercy Hospital, $62,000

Jeffrey Chell
CEO, National Marrow Donor Program, $403,552

John Peterson
psychiatrist, St. Elizabeth Hospital of Wabasha, $151,437

Michele Fedderly
executive director, Hospice Minnesota, $65,000

Brigid Riley
executive director, Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention, and Parenting, $62,081

Robert Beacher
president, Fairview Pharmacy Services, $279,285

Stuart Sybesma
general surgeon, Fairview Health Services, $622,273

Sayeed Ikramuddin
bariatric surgeon, University of Minnesota Physicians, $453,200

Kevin Roach
general surgeon, Regina Medical Center, $233,897

Nancy Sears
executive director, Dyslexia Institute of Minnesota, $47,708

Cardiologist
$750,000

Oncologist
$325,000

Orthopedist
$300,000

Cardiovascular surgeon
$680,000

Vascular surgeon
$400,000

Sister Marie Seiter
board member, HealthEast, $25,000

Mary Brainerd
president and CEO, HealthPartners, $892,741



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