According to the Maryland Reporter, 6,847 state employees earn an annual salary over $100,000 — but only two make over a million. Mark Turgeon, the head coach of the University of Maryland’s basketball team, earned $2,229,194 last year. The school’s head football coach, Randy Edsall, made $2,078,248.
The state’s third highest-earning employee is also a coach. The top 10 is rounded out by six professors/directors/chairs at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with Jay Perman, the president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore. The state’s top-earning non university employee is Linda De Hoyos, a psychiatrist in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, who earned $283,899 last year.
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