Waco Reporter

Texas Workforce Commission paid an average compensation of $48,940 during 2019, this was less than the public employee average of $51,268, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest paid public employee in Texas was James Willson, who earned $553,500 as the chief scientific officer at the Cancer Prevention And Research Institute Of Texas.

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	Chris J. Nelson	$140,000
9	Heather Hall	$138,588
10	Tom A. McCarty	$137,222
11	Lowell A. Keig	$137,000
12	Paul D. Carmona	$133,955
13	Susanna Holt Cutrone	$133,875
14	Cheryl A. Fuller	$130,000
14	Courtney Arbour	$130,000
16	Susan K. Durso	$129,137
17	John G. Greytok	$125,000
17	Jeffery C. Peden	$125,000
19	Adam Rice Leonard	$124,488
20	Dale A. Robertson	$120,233
21	Leo J. Paterra	$119,700
22	Julie A. Lindsey	$118,980
23	Tammy Martin	$118,667
24	Cruz Vera J. Dela	$117,445
25	Timothy A. Urbanovsky	$117,397
26	Michael W. Hooks	$117,153
27	Ashley Sagebiel	$116,474
28	Jewell A. Patricio	$116,328
29	Dan Ngo	$116,160
30	Bryan D. Snoddy	$115,944
31	John M. Fowler	$115,200
32	Brian Owens	$115,000
33	Christopher Bunton	$114,330
34	Judy A. Sandberg	$114,000
35	Kimberly R. Emmerich	$113,174
36	Jennifer W. Troke	$113,016
37	Joshua G. Kuntz	$113,000
38	Charles E. Ross Jr.	$112,975
39	Wes B. Fields	$112,961
40	William T. Simmons	$112,388
41	Deborah Denise Carlson	$112,387
42	Kerry Ballast	$112,001
43	Jennifer K. Colehower	$112,000
44	Bahman Forotanrad	$111,733
45	Nicholas R. Lealos	$111,300
46	James Arthur Knauss	$110,706
47	Greg Herbert	$110,250
48	Paul E. Morris	$109,965
49	Laura R. York	$109,690
50	Patricia W. Gutierrez	$109,233
51	Juanita M. Barker	$108,188
52	Mariana Vega	$107,964
53	Dorothy Fallin	$107,797
54	Krista K. Julian	$107,795
55	Kimberly Nicole Watson	$107,004
56	Elizabeth A. Hernandez	$106,840
56	Jerry R. White	$106,840
58	Carolyn A. Francis	$106,644
59	Shelly Wilder	$106,575
60	Miguel Angel Olivas	$106,313
61	Maria G. Fuentes	$106,000
62	Russ Ulmer	$105,600
63	Elizabeth Y. Anders	$105,000
63	Dipanjan Chakravarty	$105,000
63	Swati Dokka	$105,000
63	Beth A. Durham	$105,000
63	Robert Ohalloran	$105,000
68	Gavra Jauer Flood	$104,999
69	Joe H. Vermillion	$104,783
70	Scott A. McCune	$104,782
71	Kevin Clifford	$104,622
72	Thomas Woody Gill Jr.	$103,656
73	Paul Hinojosa	$103,200
74	Madeleine Colette Pena	$103,175
75	Gregory T. Robinson	$102,859
76	Patricia Espinoza	$102,418
77	Adam A. Alfar	$102,000
77	Huitang Li	$102,000
77	Sarah Reagan Miller	$102,000
77	Bretney R. Patton	$102,000
77	Rebecca K. Regan	$102,000
82	Charles Alexander Harris	$101,456
83	Daniel Fierro	$101,124
84	Jaime C. Torres	$101,072
85	Laura Suzanne Rook	$100,996
86	Sara K. Kendall	$100,673
87	Thuhang T. Tran	$100,008
88	Claudia E. Peden	$99,853
89	Shahrzad A. Varnado	$99,818
90	Eduardo Esquivel	$99,600
91	Eric N. Holen	$99,561
92	Candace A. Kothmann	$99,331
93	Chitta Ranjan Barik	$99,237
94	Cristina Malia Cook	$99,013
95	Luis Solis	$98,805
96	Patricia A. Koopmann	$98,570
97	Jose A. Lawrence	$97,354
98	Theresa Ann Bradley	$97,349
99	Shaun M. Carey	$97,098
100	Corra McCallin Dunigan	$96,900