Highest-paid black public officials: select group includes health-care executives, school superintendents, mayors and police chiefs. (includes related chart)

From: Ebony | Date: April 1, 1996 | Copyright information

The highest-paid African American public official is the dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Donald E. Wilson, who makes between $300,000 and $400,000 annually. Some believe that public officials in general are underpaid compared with corporate executives.

It has often been said that if you want to make money, don't work for the government. But some Blacks in 1996 are proving that adage wrong. For the first time in history, salaries of Blacks in the public sector...

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