Susan Wagle, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, has called the amount of money spent by the Kansas Bioscience Authority “lavish” and “flagrant.”Of particular concern are the salaries and bonuses paid to the agency’s top employees.

Here’s a list of the KBA staff’s annualized salaries and benefits as well as the bonuses they received in 2010.

Tom Thornton

President and CEO

$266,000 base salary

$43,660 insurance and retirement benefits

$100,000 bonus

Janice Katterhenry

KBA CFO and COO

$175,000 base salary

$27,627 insurance and retirement benefits

$24,000 bonus

David Vranicar

KBA president of Heartland BioVentures

$175,000 base salary

$28,422 insurance and retirement benefits

$24,750 bonus

Thomas Krol

KBA director of commercialization for Heartland BioVentures

$157,500 base salary

$25,180 insurance and retirement benefits

$13,500 bonus

Tony Simpson

Bioenergy director for Heartland BioVentures

$157,500 base salary

$11,655 insurance and retirement benefits

$9,000 bonus

Terry Osborn

Director of commercialization for Heartland BioVentures

$150,000 base salary

$24,226 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Brad Kemp

Project director for Cancer Fighting Cures

$126,000 base salary

$15,855 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Keith Harrington

Director of commercialization for Heartland BioVentures

$134,000 base salary

$16,164 insurance and retirement benefits

$11,520 bonus

Gary Micheel

Facilities project manager

$113,500 base salary

$23,433 insurance and retirement benefits

$6,000 bonus

Tariq Abdullah

General counsel

$110,000 base salary

$9,514 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Lindsay Thornton

Director of special projects

$107,500 base salary

$9,180 insurance and retirement benefits

$5,000 bonus

Ruth Saale

Director of accounting and financial reporting

$100,000 base salary

$15,102 insurance and retirement benefits

$5,000 bonus

Nancy Ruff

Contract administrator

$77,000 base salary

$18,013 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Arika Nester

Accountant

$75,000 base salary

$10,358 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Marsh LoScalzo

Executive assistant

$66,150 base salary

$13,665 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Christine Murray

Marketing communications specialist

$65,000 base salary

$5,847 insurance and retirement benefits

No bonus

Ryan White

Outcomes and database analyst

$61,800 base salary

$13,607 insurance and retirement benefits

$3,000 bonus

Mary Cummings

Marketing communications specialist

$60,180 base salary

$5,794 insurance and retirement benefits

$750 bonus

Donald Colbert

Colbert works for both the KBA and the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.

Katie Montes

Executive assistant

$43,000 base salary

$9,834 insurance and retirement benefits

$2,000 bonus

Lisa Kay

Executive assistant

$42,800 base salary

$3,957 insurance and retirement benefits

$2,000 bonus