California’s highest-paid employees are a little-known cadre of pension managers, prison workers and patrolmen who pull in as much as $2 million in total compensation on the taxpayer dime, records reveal.

The top-earning state worker last year was Stephen Gilmore, chief investment officer at the California Public Employees Retirement System, who netted $2.36 million in total compensation, including a $720,608 salary, nearly $100,000 in benefits and a whopping $1.5 million in “other pay.”

The publicly available pay data was compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The approximately 250 state workers who made more than $600,000 were largely…

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