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Michael Gedzun saw the largest increase in pay working for the Illinois Department of the Lottery in 2019, earning $45,900 more than in 2018.
It is unclear whether the pay differences mentioned in this story are the result of differences in total time worked or of pay rates.
Top 100 highest earners for the Illinois Department of the Lottery
Rank
Employee
2019 Earnings
1
Michael Gedzun
$148,700
2
James Bartlett
$140,500
3
Cornell Iii Wilson
$120,000
4
James Leonis
$118,700
4
Carol Radwine
$118,700
6
Druanne Allen
$116,000
7
Jessica Micenheimer
$111,200
8
Larry Johnson
$108,000
9
Marc Hoffmann
$105,100
10
Jessica Nunes
$103,600
11
Deneen Ward
$100,400
12
Kent Johnson
$98,800
13
Jason Schaumburg
$97,500
14
Randy Trone
$96,300
15
Michael Koeller
$96,100
16
Jennifer Edwards
$95,100
17
Natalie Vondebur
$94,800
18
Roger Jenks
$94,400
19
Keith Reichert
$93,700
19
Rhonda Smith
$93,700
21
James Gomez
$93,500
21
Amber Chappell
$93,500
23
Raffi Gulumian
$92,500
24
Matthew Mitchell
$91,600
25
Ignacio Cuevas
$91,000
26
Charles Weyhenmeyer
$90,700
27
Deborah Gray
$89,400
28
Frank Price
$89,300
29
Mark Nolan
$89,200
30
Marie O'Brien
$88,800
31
Karen Blumhagen
$87,400
32
Scott Gillard
$86,300
33
Tracy Agney
$85,300
33
Ricki Rathjen
$85,300
35
Paula Parentice
$84,000
36
Peter Romano
$83,200
37
Mark Lane
$82,700
38
Mark Sniegowski
$82,600
39
Sandra Hodges
$82,200
40
Darick Clark
$81,600
41
Thomas Ferguson
$81,500
41
Maria Rodriguez
$81,500
43
Curt Plotner
$81,100
44
David Thomas
$81,000
45
Julie Jones
$80,900
45
Ryan McKeone
$80,900
47
Sara Greenwell
$80,700
48
Cecil Hernandez
$80,500
49
Peter Lepka
$80,400
50
Rosalind Byrd
$80,200
51
Thomas Brown
$78,800
51
Martin Quirk
$78,800
53
Joseph Weiss
$78,600
54
Harvey Karpiel
$78,300
55
Roy Rakes
$77,200
56
Fernando Bargioni
$76,800
57
Katherine Tower
$76,400
58
Jeremy Hawk
$74,700
58
Billy McCaskill
$74,700
60
James Laplume
$73,500
61
Jonathan Irwin
$73,400
62
Andrea Holloway
$72,400
63
Kim Arvidson
$71,500
64
Jess Schumacher
$69,900
65
Ryan Wilson
$66,700
65
Deborah Joyce
$66,700
67
Laurian Powell-Warner
$65,400
68
Aaron Sample
$65,300
69
Priscilla Iyare
$64,100
70
Kurt Scharfe
$64,000
71
Luis Rodriguez
$63,700
72
Joseph Meyers
$63,500
72
Belainesh Haile
$63,500
74
Vincient Dillon
$63,100
75
David Thompson
$62,900
76
Jeanine Keltner
$61,900
77
Jill Brokaw
$61,800
77
David Myers
$61,800
77
Ladonna Stanley
$61,800
80
Katherine Arvanitis
$61,200
81
Peter Cali
$59,700
82
Cheryl Danner
$59,300
83
Joseph Stiller
$59,200
84
Sherrell Benford
$59,000
85
Dean Derrick
$58,900
86
Giles Smith
$58,800
87
Amanda Skaloud
$58,700
88
Shelly Hughes
$58,600
88
Robb Walters
$58,600
90
Riker Heaney
$58,000
91
Carl Poeschel
$57,900
92
Nora Iniguez
$56,900
93
Andrea Devries
$56,800
94
Matthew Kutzora
$56,400
94
Michelle Catteau
$56,400
96
Bobby Winbush
$55,500
97
Lee Enokian
$55,300
98
Tamika Abdul-Shakur
$55,100
99
Bradley Marlow
$54,900
100
Susan Turner
$54,100
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