These are the highest paid Missouri state employees. One made over $500K in 2025
Your Missouri tax dollars pay for salaries of state employees: from judges and senators to state troopers and secretaries. But who makes the most?
In 2025, 2,862 state employees were paid $100,000 or more a year, out of more than 73,000 people on the state payroll.
Governments are required by law to share how much they pay their employees. Missouri publishes salary information on the state’s accountability portal.
You will not see some well-known faces on the list, like Missouri coaches Eliah Drinkwitz and Dennis Gates, because university employees are paid by their educational institutions, Chris Moreland, spokesperson for the Missouri Office of Administration, told The Star in early 2025.
Also, municipal, county and federal officials are also not included. This is because they are paid by the city, county or federal budget.
The pre-tax salary includes all pay received by an employee, like overtime and bonuses.
Here are how much top Missouri officials were paid in 2025.
- Missouri supreme court judges: $207,578
- Mike Kehoe, governor: $134,011
- Andrew Bailey, former attorney general: $92,024 (Bailey served until September)
- Catherine Hanaway, attorney general: $34,223 (Hanaway took over for Bailey in September)
- Denny Hoskins, secretary of state: $108,061
- David Wasinger, lieutenant governor: $86,607
- Missouri senators: $41,391
- Missouri representatives: $41,316
Some of Missouri’s highest paid employees were psychiatrists, doctors, department heads and state Supreme Court justices. Psychiatrists work in state mental hospitals, and some also work at state prisons, Moreland said last year. Here are the 10 highest paid Missouri employees in 2024.
Here are the 10 highest paid Missouri employees in 2025.
- Amala Kumar D. Augustine, staff physician specialist, mental health department, $561,249
- Sekhar Vangala, psychiatrist, mental health department, $498,614
- Omagbemi A. Buwa, psychiatrist, mental health department, $473,900
- Naveen K. Yarasi, psychiatrist, mental health department, $448,731
- Jamal A. Zereik, staff physician, mental health department, $420,549
- Robert B. Sexe, physician, mental health department, $388,306
- Timothy Dellenbaugh, psychiatrist, mental health department, $374,649
- Babu R. Dandamudi, physician, mental health department, $370,776
- Angeline Stanislaus, medical administrator, mental health department, $366,302
- Stacy L. Neff, psychiatrist, mental health department, $365,199
Explore the full database at KansasCity.com to see more than 2,000 Missouri employees paid over $100,000 in 2025.
This story was originally published January 27, 2026 at 6:13 AM.
