Show-Me State Times

There were three employees of the Department of Agriculture in Missouri who earned $100,000 or more in 2021, according to data compiled by the Missouri Accountability Portal.

Christine L. Chinn was the highest paid employee of the Department of Agriculture with an annual salary of $129,142.

The highest salary was $128,985 in 2020.

A report from members of the Federal Salary Council argued the pay structures within the U.S. government are skewed and federal workers are overpaid.

Downsizing the Federal Government, a project advocating for smaller government in the face of rising deficits, argued more than 2 million federal employees earned on average $30,000 more than private-sector employees in similar fields and have more generous benefit packages.

Missouri employee	Annual salary
Christine L. Chinn	$129,142
John Christopher Klenklen	$117,811
Mark R. Wolfe	$102,830