Nearly 3,000 Arkansas state employees paid $100,000 plus

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     (AP) – Nearly 3,000 state employees in Arkansas are now paid
$100,000 or more per year.
     Figures obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette show the number increased
by 211 this fiscal year to 2,933.
     The greatest increase was 146 at the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences. UAMS spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said most of the growth is in patient
care and that state funding did not increase.
     The top salary is $4.1 million paid to University of Arkansas football coach
Bret Bielema, followed by $2.45 million to UA basketball coach Mike Anderson.
Next is $1.07 million to UAMS head of pediatric cardiovascular surgery
Michiakaki Imamura and $1.03 million to UAMS department of orthopedic surgery
chairman C. Lowry Barnes.
     UA athletic director Jeff Long is fifth with a salary of $1.01 million.

   

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