NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Three outsourcing consultants have been paid $612,000 annually by the state even as Republican Governor Bill Haslam has insisted that no decision has been made about privatization efforts.
The top paid contractor has been Mike Ledyard, who gave his title as director of facilities management outsourcing. He has been paid $222 an hour for an average of four full days a week, or about $369,000 per year.
Ledyard's annual income has been over $100,000 more than the top earning state employee in Tennessee government, Chief Investment Officer George Brakebill in the Treasury Department. Haslam has declined to take his own salary of about $185,000.
The other two consultants, Kate Vitasek and Bob Balzar, have been paid $191 and $165 per hour.
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