MILWAUKEE - More than 100 state employees grossed more last year than Gov. Jim Doyle, according to a Milwaukee newspaper analysis.

The state Department of Administration provided a database of 15,300 employees' earnings and overtime pay to the newspaper and it shows that Gov. Jim Doyle earned $136,263 last year.

At least 119 state employees made more than Doyle, including psychiatrists, physicians and state pension investors.

All of the senior management staff at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board earned more. The state's top earner listed in the database, the investment board's deputy executive director, Gail Hanson, was paid almost $397,000 last year.

"It doesn't bother me," Doyle said. "I know that there are certain jobs - medical jobs and others - that we're competing, and we have to be able to pay a salary that's somewhat competitive in order to get people to come and do very important jobs. So, I'm not insisting that I be number one on the list."

But Doyle does enjoy some perks available to few others. He lives rent-free in a 34-room mansion on Lake Mendota. He has a personal chauffeur and security detail, access to state planes and he gets to lead overseas trade missions.

The database does not include the roughly 20,000 employees represented by the Wisconsin State Employees Union, the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council, the Wisconsin Science Professionals and the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association because of labor contracts that say employee names cannot be released publicly.

It also doesn't include UW System employees. The newspaper gathered information on those employees - as well as other public workers - from other sources.

Others who make more than Doyle include University of Wisconsin head football coach Bret Bielema, who made $1.3 million, Bielema's offensive and defensive coordinators and UW receivers coach Henry Mason, who made $150,000.

Even some municipal employees - Milwaukee's mayor, city attorney, assessor and comptroller - earned more than the governor, according to the city's Legislative Reference Bureau.

"I think the governor is underpaid," said Milwaukee comptroller W. Martin "Wally" Morics, a certified public accountant who was paid $141,814 last year. "But that's something for the Legislature to take up."

Seven of the 10 highest-grossing state employees in 2007 who are listed in the database were employed as directors or portfolio managers at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. The 10 top-grossing investment board staffers collectively made more than $3 million last year, the database shows.

The investment board manages $90 billion in assets, including nearly $83.3 billion in trust funds for the Wisconsin Retirement System. The state's retirement system is the ninth-largest public pension fund in the nation.

"Do public employees deserve a lower quality of investment manager because they are public employees?" investment board spokeswoman Vicki Hearing said. "In managing $90 billion in assets, you want the most competent people here."

Five nurse clinicians at the Department of Health and Family Services were paid more than $145,000 last year, with at least $50,000 coming from overtime.

Rep. Kitty Rhoades, R-Hudson, is co-chair of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee.

"Does their management know this? If this is all overtime, holy man!" Rhoades said. "I would think if you were in the private sector, you would sit back and say, 'Wow, for this amount of money we could have added X number of employees at starting salary.' "

But Jennifer Donnelly, director of the Office of State Employee Relations, said the state has had trouble filling nursing jobs because of a worker shortage. The nurse clinicians who made more than the governor are senior employees who have first choice at overtime shifts, she said.