Iowa Football Coach Kirk Ferentz remained the state’s highest paid employee last year, but University of Iowa Vice President of Medical Affairs Jean Robillard jumped to second with a hefty retention bonus spiking his pay to nearly $1.3 million.

The Iowa salary database contains information about just over 60,000 state employees employed in Iowa during fiscal year 2011 which ended June 30, 2011.

The database can be searched by name, department, gender and county.

The database is based on electronic information collected by the Iowa Department of Administrative Services which publishes the state salary book.

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Listings are searchable by last name, department or county of employment. When searching by last name, your search will return records for all employees whose last names contain your search term (i.e., “Smith” would return John Smith as well as John Smith-Jones). Any field can be left blank to search everything within that category.