South Galveston News

Texas Workforce Commission paid an average compensation of $49,079 during 2020, this was less than the public employee average of $51,794, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Brian Guthrie, who earned $754,275 as the executive director at the Teacher Retirement System.

The national median hourly wage is $19.14 according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the OECD, the average yearly wage in the US is more than $60,000.

When calculating average compensation, only employees categorized as full-time were included.

Rank	Employee	Amount Earned
1	Julian Alvarez	$201,000
1	Robert B. Daniel	$201,000
1	Aaron Demerson	$201,000
4	Edward Serna	$182,500
5	Randy L. Townsend	$170,000
6	Clayton B. Cole	$155,000
6	Leslie Trobman	$155,000
8	Cheryl A. Fuller	$145,000
8	Courtney Arbour	$145,000
8	Sarah Reagan Miller	$145,000
11	Chris J. Nelson	$140,000
12	Heather Hall	$138,588
13	Tom A. McCarty	$137,222
14	Lowell A. Keig	$137,000
15	Mary H. York	$135,000
16	Paul D. Carmona	$133,955
17	Susanna Holt Cutrone	$133,875
18	Andre Lasha Lenzy	$130,955
19	Susan K. Durso	$129,137
20	Jeffery C. Peden	$125,000
20	John G. Greytok	$125,000
22	Judy A. Sandberg	$124,928
23	Adam Rice Leonard	$124,488
24	Dawn M. Cronin	$119,807
24	Leslie A. Kruse	$119,807
24	Kerry Ballast	$119,807
27	Leo J. Paterra	$119,700
28	Eric N. Holen	$119,050
29	Julie A. Lindsey	$118,980
30	Tammy Martin	$118,667
31	William T. Simmons	$118,388
32	Cruz Vera J. Dela	$117,445
33	Timothy A. Urbanovsky	$117,397
34	Michael W. Hooks	$117,153
35	Ashley Sagebiel	$116,474
36	Jewell A. Patricio	$116,328
37	Dan Ngo	$116,160
38	Bryan D. Snoddy	$115,944
39	John M. Fowler	$115,200
40	Brian Owens	$115,000
41	Nicholas R. Lealos	$114,639
42	Kimberly Nicole Watson	$114,494
43	Christopher Bunton	$114,330
44	Kimberly R. Emmerich	$113,174
45	Jennifer W. Troke	$113,016
46	Joshua G. Kuntz	$113,000
47	Charles E. Ross Jr.	$112,975
48	Wes B. Fields	$112,961
49	Jennifer K. Colehower	$112,000
50	Bahman Forotanrad	$111,733
51	James Arthur Knauss	$110,706
52	Beth A. Durham	$110,256
53	Dipanjan Chakravarty	$110,250
53	Greg Herbert	$110,250
55	Paul E. Morris	$109,965
56	Gavra Jauer Flood	$109,199
57	Maria G. Fuentes	$109,180
58	Juanita M. Barker	$108,188
59	Mariana Vega	$107,964
60	Dorothy Fallin	$107,797
61	Jerry R. White	$106,840
61	Elizabeth A. Hernandez	$106,840
63	Carolyn A. Francis	$106,644
64	Shelly Wilder	$106,575
65	Miguel Angel Olivas	$106,313
66	Kimberly M. Bradford-Brown	$105,800
67	Russ Ulmer	$105,600
68	Theresa Ann Bradley	$105,509
69	Jason M. Vaden	$105,294
70	Thomas W. Beckley	$105,000
70	Swati Dokka	$105,000
70	Elizabeth Noelle Bell	$105,000
70	Elizabeth Y. Anders	$105,000
70	Robert Ohalloran	$105,000
75	Joe H. Vermillion	$104,783
76	Scott A. McCune	$104,782
77	Kevin Clifford	$104,622
78	Daniel Fierro	$104,158
79	Thomas Woody Gill Jr.	$103,656
80	Patrick R. Akers	$103,366
81	Paul Hinojosa	$103,200
82	Madeleine Colette Pena	$103,175
83	Gregory T. Robinson	$102,859
84	Patricia Espinoza	$102,418
85	Sharla Lynn Roberts	$102,215
86	Adam A. Alfar	$102,000
86	Rebecca K. Regan	$102,000
86	Bretney R. Patton	$102,000
86	Huitang Li	$102,000
90	Charles Alexander Harris	$101,456
91	Jaime C. Torres	$101,072
92	Laura Suzanne Rook	$100,996
93	Sara K. Kendall	$100,673
94	Claudia E. Peden	$99,853
95	Shahrzad A. Varnado	$99,818
96	Kandace Decker	$99,671
97	Ricky E. Arambula	$99,510
98	Wendy F. Kovar	$99,447
99	Candace A. Kothmann	$99,331
100	Chitta Ranjan Barik	$99,237