Once again, the largest state salaries in Maryland are found at the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Bartley Griffith, a transplant surgeon at the UMMC and a professor at the UMd. School of Medicine, and Dr. Bradley Taylor, UMMC’s director of coronary revascularization and vice chief of cardiac surgery at the medical school, are tied for the highest-paid employees on the state payroll with approximate annual salaries of $980,000 in 2019.
Both carried roughly the same approximate salaries in 2018.
Dr. Sunjay Kaushal, director of pediatric and adult congenital surgery and co-director of the children’s heart program at UMMS, is earning an approximate salary of $900,000 — the third-largest on the state payroll. Kaushal’s salary was the largest on the state payroll in 2017.
Higher education and medical posts at the state’s public universities dominate the top of our database, which you can browse below.
DJ Durkin, the former University of Maryland football coach, is fourth on the list with an approximate 2019 salary of $864,000.