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Judiciary

Source file: Missouri Accountability Portal — State Employee Pay / ingested Jun 18, 2026

The Judiciary operates the court system — adjudicating cases and maintaining judicial records.

In 2025, this agency had 5,146 employees with median total compensation of $41,760; the highest distinct record was $207,578.

Year: 2025
Total payroll: $263.2M
Employees: 5,146
Median total: $41,760
Highest record: $207,578

What the records show

Compensation analytics

These summaries compare pay within the agency before listing individual records.

Salary distribution

-$251$178,981+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How 2025 total compensation is spread across the 5,146 employees. Each bar is a pay range; taller bars mean more people earn in that range. The amber line marks the median ($41,760) — half earn less, half more. The far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Average pay composition

Base — $0 (0%)
Overtime — $0 (0%)
Other — $51,146 (100%)
Benefits — $0 (0%)

What an average paycheck here is made of — base salary versus overtime, other pay (bonuses, allowances), and benefits. A large overtime or other-pay share means take-home often exceeds base salary.

Pay percentiles

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$6,477

$22,292

$41,760

$63,692

$100,751

The pay ladder for this department. Someone at the 90th percentile earns $100,751 — more than 90% of the department; the 10th percentile earns $6,477. The shaded band is the middle half of employees (25th–75th percentile).

Largest job titles

Court Clerk

1,121 · $35,990

Senior Court Clerk

497 · $42,211

Assistant Public Defender

439 · $67,711

Associate Circuit Judge

221 · $164,662

Juvenile Officer II

205 · $47,774

The most common job titles in this department by headcount, with the median total compensation for each. Click a title to see everyone who holds it.

Trend

Year over year

How this department's total payroll, headcount, and median pay changed across the 3 published years.

Year	Total payroll	Employees	Median pay
2023	$241.6M —	5,121 —	$39,074 —
2024	$252.1M ▲ 4.3%	5,093 ▼ 0.5%	$40,319 ▲ 3.2%
2025	$263.2M ▲ 4.4%	5,146 ▲ 1.0%	$41,760 ▲ 3.6%

Compare

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Record list

Employees

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James Youngs

Circuit Judge/Judiciary

2025 total comp

$171,456

Base pay: $0
Overtime: $0
Other pay: $171,456
Benefits: $0
Total compensation: $171,456

At Judiciary, James Youngs serves as a Circuit Judge. Their 2025 pay totaled $171,456.

Kathy Lloyd

Administrator/Judiciary

2025 total comp

$169,056

Base pay: $0
Overtime: $0
Other pay: $169,056
Benefits: $0
Total compensation: $169,056

At Judiciary, Kathy Lloyd serves as a Administrator. Their 2025 pay totaled $169,056.

Kurt Odenwald

Appellate Judge/Judiciary

2024 total comp

$168,110

Base pay: $0
Overtime: $0
Other pay: $168,110
Benefits: $0
Total compensation: $168,110

Kurt Odenwald works as a Appellate Judge for Judiciary. Kurt earned $168,110 in 2024.

Brandon Sanchez