California / Justice / Deputy Attorney General V
Job-title file
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
558 employees hold this title in Justice. Median total compensation for the role is $195,427, above the department median of $92,942.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 558 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in California, the median wage for Lawyers — about 95,770 people — is $195,080. Justice pays a median base salary of $165,614 for this role, 15% below that figure — about the 38th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers across every employer in California, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Justice’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. Justice’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 52nd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the California range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,412 of 1,544 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Justice is $161,852, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In California, the median of $161,852 ranks #4 of 6. See Deputy Attorney General across all of California →
Median total compensation for comparable Deputy Attorney Generalroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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At Justice, Vesna Cuk serves as a Deputy Attorney General V. They work full-time. Their 2025 pay totaled $191,291. They are represented by R02.
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Namita Patel is a Deputy Attorney General V at Justice. They work full-time. 2025 total compensation came to $191,165. They are represented by R02.
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Alan Macina works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. Alan earned $189,854 in 2025. Their bargaining unit is R02.
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Darcie Tilly works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. Darcie earned $189,686 in 2025. They are represented by R02.
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Daniel Robertson holds the role of Deputy Attorney General V at Justice. Their status is full-time. In 2025, their total compensation was $189,374. Union affiliation: R02.
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At Justice, Andrew Wiener serves as a Deputy Attorney General V. They work full-time. Their 2025 pay totaled $188,901. Their bargaining unit is R02.
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Jonathan Miles is a Deputy Attorney General V at Justice. They work full-time. 2025 total compensation came to $188,864. Union affiliation: R02.
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Natasha Howard is a Deputy Attorney General V at Justice. They work full-time. 2023 total compensation came to $188,748. Union affiliation: R02.
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At Justice, Kavita Lesser serves as a Deputy Attorney General V. They work full-time. Their 2025 pay totaled $187,914. They are represented by R02.
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Amanda Lopez works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. Amanda earned $187,908 in 2025. They are represented by R02.
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John Keith works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. John earned $187,908 in 2025. Union affiliation: R02.
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Elizabeth Lake works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. Elizabeth earned $187,908 in 2025. They are represented by R02.
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Jason Tarricone works as a Deputy Attorney General V for Justice. Their status is full-time. Jason earned $187,458 in 2025. They are represented by R02.