Two years after leaving his perch as chief economist for the state Budget Office for a job in the private sector, Paul Dion is back.

Dion has been hired by the director of the new Department of Revenue to serve as the $105,881-a-year chief of the department’s “Division of Revenue Analysis.”

Job description: to “analyze, evaluate, and appraise the tax system of the state, and make recommendations for its revision in accordance with the best interests of the economy…[and] be responsible for preparing cost benefit analyses of all tax expenditures.”

Dion, of North Kingstown, left his last, $76,250-a-year state post in May 2006 and currently works at PharmaCare.

The start date for his new job: April 7.