As a taxpayer, the salaries of elected and appointed officials are public record. Here is some of the nation’s, state’s and university’s top-ranking people and how much the taxpayers give them.

United States of America

President, $400,000

Vice president, $212,100

Speaker of the House, $212,100

House Majority and minority leaders, $183,500

House/senate members and delegates, $165,200

U.S. Senators, $169,300

U.S. House Representatives, $169, 300

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, $212,100

Associate Justice of Supreme Court, $203,000

State of Iowa

Chet Culver, governor, $130,000

Patty Judge, lieutenant governor, $103,212

Michael Mauro, secretary of state, $103,291

David Vaudt, auditor of state, $103,212

Michael Fitzgerald, treasure of state, $103,212

Bill Northey, secretary of agriculture, $103,230

Tom Miller, Iowa attorney general, $123, 669

Iowa State

Gregory Geoffroy, president, $398,316

Thomas Hill, vice president of student affairs, $184,405

Dione Somerville, dean of students, $107,100

Kathleen Jones, assistant vice president and registrar of enrollment services, $117,189

Marc Harding, director of admissions, $123,600

Roberta Johnson, director of student financial aid, $99,498

Pete Englin, director of the department of residence, $123, 523

Nancy Levandowski, director of ISU Dining, $114,240

Richard Reynolds, director of the Memorial Union, $101,014

Penni McKinley, interim director of student health care, $54, 579

James Dorsett, director of international students and scholars, $82,546

Doug Gruenewald, co-director of learning communities, $88,978

Steven Mickelson, co-director of learning communities, $87,409

Terry Mason, assistant vice president for student affairs and directory of Student Counseling Service, $119, 334

Elizabeth Hoffman, executive vice president and provost of academic affairs, $297, 990

Jack Payne, vice president of extension and outreach, $221,059

James A. Davis, vice provost and chief information officer of IT Services, $200,000

Wendy Wintersteen, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, $227,872

Labh Hira, dean of the College of Business, $255,002

Mark Engelbrecht, dean of the College of Design, $172,495

James Bernard, interim dean of the College of Engineering, $275,365

Pamela White, interim dean of the College of Human Services, $201,375

Michael Whiteford, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, $207,793

John Thomson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, $220,050

David Holger, dean of the Graduate College, $208,124

Olivia Madison, dean of the library, $177,448

Warren Madden, vice president business and finance, $242,276

Christopher Ahoy, associate vice president of facilities planning and management, $160,700

Arlo Meyer, director of the business services, $124,200

A. David Inyang, director of environmental health and safety, $116,700

Jerry Stewart, director of public safety, $99,700

Joan Piscitello, treasurer, $151,400

Carla Espinoza, associate vice president of human resource services, $148,200

Stephanie Fox, controller, $120,000

Terry McLaughlin, director of Reiman Gardens, $89,000

Lynette Pohlman, director of University Museums, $92,800

Tahira K Hira, executive assistant to the president , $176,920

Jamie Pollard, director of ISU Athletics, $364,000

Carla Espinoza, director of equal opportunity and diversity, $148,200

Paul Tanaka, University Counsel, $189,829

John McCarroll, director of university relations, $111,972