Data: More than 120 employees in State Capitol make over $100K a year
HARTFORD — Twenty-nine of 428 employees in the State Capitol, from workers in the House and Senate caucuses to nonpartisan support staff, make more than $150,000 a year, according to new salary data released to CT Insider under the state Freedom of Information Act.
The payroll list is topped by Vincent Mauro Jr., the longtime chief of staff for the majority Senate
Democrats who makes $209,000.
While political appointees like Mauro, the powerful chairman of the New Haven Democratic Town Committee, dominate the top salaries, veteran nonpartisan analysts and administrators are also among the highest-paid, including James Tamburro, executive director of the Office of Legislative Management, which runs operations in the Capitol building, the adjacent Legislative Ofaide fice Building and the Old State House located a mile away in the heart of downtown.
Tamburro makes $194,667, according to the legislative salary data requested last month.
“Each year has brought its own challenges and I have enjoyed working through all of them,” said Mauro, a caucus employee since 1996. “I started here at 22 years old making $23,000 a year. This experience has truly been an honor.” Mauro, the top
to Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney of New Haven, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff of Norwalk, heads a staff that supports the 24-12 Democratic majority.
Two other staffers in the Senate Democratic caucus, Joel Rudikoff and Courtney Cullinan, make $206,000 and $202,000 respectively. Franklin Perry, the chief of staff for the House Democratic majority, and Richard Baltimore, chief legal
counsel for House Democrats, are each paid $193,000, according to the data. Two top aides in the minority Senate Republican office, John Healy and
Jason Welch, are paid $190,000 and $187,512, respectively.