Over 9,000 State Workers Earned Over $100,000 in 2018
Source: PennLive
$100,000 Club: More than 9,000 state workers earn six figures
More than 9,000 people in Pennsylvania state government earned $100,000 or more in 2018, according to PennLive.
There are now 9,071 state workers in the $100,000 club, an increase of 781 from last year. It’s the highest number since PennLive and The Patriot-News first began tracking the six-figure earners in state government in 1997.
All of the members of the $100,000 club gathered together would come close to filling the Giant Center in Hershey. The arena holds 10,500, so there would be a little more than 1,400 seats left empty.
If they congregated at FNB Stadium on City Island in Harrisburg, it would be way more people than the 6,187-seat stadium could handle.
Roughly speaking, it translates to about one in every 10 state government workers earning $100,000 or more, according to PennLive’s analysis of compensation data provided by the governor’s Office of Administration, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, and state agencies. That is up from 1 in every 13 employees in 2017.