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James Couchman earned $46,187 in 2018 working as a correctional officer for the Department of Corrections, according to data compiled by The Arizona Republic on more than 150,000 employees in the state.

The employee's total compensation is made up of an employee's annual salary with the addition of any overtime pay earned throughout the year.

The highest-paid employee working for the Department of Corrections—Charles Ryan—earned $185,000 as the director.

Rank	Employee	Job title	Salary
1	Charles Ryan	Director	$185,000
2	David Robertson	--	$178,500
3	Joseph Profiri	--	$140,000
4	Carson McWilliams	--	$136,000
5	Brad Keogh	--	$128,300
6	Karen Hellman	--	$127,497
7	Michael Kearns	--	$126,000
8	Richard Pratt	--	$120,000
9	Steven Lauchner	--	$117,700
10	Robert Wilder	--	$115,000
10	Dwight Cloud	--	$115,000
12	Denise Stravia	--	$110,000
13	James O'Neil	--	$107,000
13	Jacob Gable	--	$107,000
13	Keith Smith	--	$107,000
16	Martin Winland	--	$104,368
17	Gergana Kovatcheva	--	$100,000
17	Derleen Spence-Ogilvie	--	$100,000
17	Brian Radecki	--	$100,000
17	Andrew Dean	--	$100,000
17	Courtney Glynn	Attorney	$100,000
17	Teresa Eierdam	--	$100,000
23	Stacey Crabtree	--	$99,655
23	Ronald Credio	--	$99,655
23	Ernest Trujillo	--	$99,655
23	Tara Diaz	--	$99,655
27	Ryan Allison	--	$99,500
28	Jason Johnson	Correctional lieutenant	$98,499
29	David Clark	Correctional officer	$98,363
30	Arthur Harding	--	$98,000
30	Benjamin Alteneder	--	$98,000
32	Brady Harvey	Correctional officer	$97,474
33	Travis Johnson	Correctional sergeant	$95,522
34	Nicole Taylor	--	$95,000
35	Vanessa Headstream	--	$94,500
35	Kathleen Campbell	--	$94,500
35	Diane Rockett	--	$94,500
38	Thomas Collins	Correctional sergeant	$94,466
39	Paul O'Connell	--	$91,576
40	John Bogert	--	$91,500
41	Mary Keefe	Correctional lieutenant	$91,230
42	Therese Schroeder	--	$91,000
43	Anthony Zelenak	Administrative services officer	$90,525
44	Harry Dolny	Administrative services officer	$90,300
45	Joseph Nicoletti	--	$90,000
45	Gerald Thompson	Correctional administrator	$90,000
45	Ruben Montano	--	$90,000
45	Kimberly Currier	--	$90,000
45	Richard Evitch	Administrative services officer	$90,000
45	Chris Moody	--	$90,000
45	Charles Manning	--	$90,000
45	Mark Jones	--	$90,000
53	Jeremy Rios	Correctional sergeant	$89,826
54	Michael Landry	--	$89,670
55	Eric Brandner	Correctional lieutenant	$89,603
56	Kelly Randolph	Correctional lieutenant	$89,490
57	Robert Patton	Program administrator	$89,000
57	Erin Barlund	--	$89,000
59	James Plucker	Correctional sergeant	$88,764
60	Linda Davis	Correctional lieutenant	$88,715
61	Thomas Basoco	--	$88,059
62	Juli Roberts	Correctional administrator	$88,000
63	Laurel Sanderson-McCabe	Correctional sergeant	$87,094
64	Jamie Guzman	--	$87,000
65	David Larson	Correctional officer	$86,227
66	Kevin Curran	Correctional administrator	$86,000
67	Chad Blackwell	Correctional sergeant	$85,836
68	Ivan Ballesteros	Correctional sergeant	$85,705
69	Michael Terry	Correctional lieutenant	$85,578
70	John Hernandez	Correctional sergeant	$85,332
71	Robert Winfrey	Correctional sergeant	$85,139
72	Berry Larson	Correctional administrator	$85,000
72	Stephen Morris	Correctional administrator	$85,000
72	Robert Camp	--	$85,000
75	Dale Beatty	--	$84,967
76	Rose Freitag	Correctional lieutenant	$84,728
77	Ismael Lopez	Correctional sergeant	$84,533
78	Daniel Carpenter	Correctional sergeant	$84,406
79	Ferdinand Caruso	Correctional sergeant	$84,018
80	Regina Dorsey	Correctional administrator	$84,000
80	Lance Hetmer	Correctional administrator	$84,000
80	Steven Johnson	--	$84,000
80	Andrew Jackson	Correctional administrator	$84,000
84	Norman Twyford	--	$83,927
85	Vivian Baltierra	Correctional administrator	$83,849
86	April Boutchyard	--	$83,000
87	Edward Williams	Correctional lieutenant	$82,883
88	Mark Haldane	Program administrator	$82,800
89	Orin Romney	--	$82,760
90	Erik Dingman	Correctional lieutenant	$82,141
91	George Lemoine	Correctional lieutenant	$82,101
92	Glenn Pacheco	Correctional administrator	$82,000
92	Walter Hensley	Correctional administrator	$82,000
92	Edwin Jensen	Correctional administrator	$82,000
92	Alfred Ramos	Correctional administrator	$82,000
92	Tabitha Johnson	--	$82,000
97	Eric Randall	Correctional lieutenant	$81,932
98	James Tarantino	--	$81,900
99	Raymond Littleton	Correctional lieutenant	$81,848
100	Smith Annemarie Whitson	Correctional administrator	$81,843