text: There are 17-18 K employees in the Executive Branch.   About 15K are union, including all the State's supervisors and confidentials, and even including the State's labor negotiators.   So, 2-3K exempt, partially-exempt and elected/appointed who are non-union.   Last I looked there were a couple hundred division directors or similar positions, a C step director is about $110K.   There are several hundred non-union AAGs in State Ranges 20 - 24 or so, $80 - $100K, and there are also lots of clerks and technicians who for one reason or another are non-union, mostly because of who they report to.
  
  The quasi-governmentals have some union employees, e.g., AHFC, but most are non-union and most have salaries set by a board or commission.   Some in the quasis cut a really fat hog.   All are exempt from the State Pay Plan but some have adopted it.   The 24K employees number that gets bandied around includes the Legislature and the Judiciary as well as the  partially union University.