Waco Reporter

Texas Juvenile Justice Department paid an average compensation of $48,756 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	Scott Lepor	$276,817
2	Candace Cain	$216,725
3	Shandra Carter	$162,000
4	Nathan Jackson Jr.	$155,000
5	Wupperfeld Christian Von	$148,000
6	Forrest Mitchell	$144,760
7	Emily Anderson	$142,000
8	Louis Serrano IV	$137,500
9	Alan Michel Jr.	$125,000
9	Todd Novak	$125,000
11	Lori Robinson	$120,000
12	Luther Taliaferro	$118,495
13	Cynthia Brown	$117,000
14	Thomas Adamski	$116,710
15	Eleazar Garcia	$115,692
16	James Elliott	$110,000
17	Daniel Guajardo	$105,468
18	Jennifer Jones	$105,000
18	Amy Miller	$105,000
18	Tamu Steptoe	$105,000
21	David Stender	$104,000
22	William Parks Jr.	$100,793
23	Jillian Erdberg	$100,000
23	Preston Streufert	$100,000
25	Terri Dollar	$98,996
26	Jeffery Robertson	$97,522
27	Robert Dubose	$97,092
28	Sheree Case	$95,000
28	Christopher Ellison	$95,000
28	Michelle Havranek	$95,000
28	Deborah Whitlock	$95,000
28	Daniel Krall	$95,000
33	Jana Stevens	$94,725
34	Kaci Singer	$94,180
35	Karol Davidson	$94,119
36	Daniel Siam	$93,237
37	Henry Thomas	$92,814
38	Zachary Valdez	$92,500
39	Amanda Zamarron	$92,000
39	Jennifer Bennett	$92,000
41	Kathryn Ellerman	$91,000
42	Carolyn Johnson	$90,171
43	John Arredondo	$90,000
43	Lisa Broussard	$90,000
43	Sebastian Estades	$90,000
43	Sean Grove	$90,000
43	April Jameson	$90,000
43	Troy McPeak	$90,000
49	Diana Sawyers	$89,661
50	Frank Brown II	$87,699
51	Dennis Smith	$87,057
52	Kathryn Hallmark	$87,000
53	Cheryl Duke	$86,987
54	Glen Knipstein	$86,912
55	Ruth Domel	$86,339
55	Randall Waggoner	$86,339
57	Barbara Hollenshead	$86,058
58	Timothy Hinds	$85,989
59	Lory Alexander	$85,934
60	Fernando Leal	$85,200
61	David Wallis	$85,127
62	San Juanita Gonzalez	$85,051
63	Omar Casas	$84,964
64	Douglas Wise	$84,525
64	William Klein	$84,525
66	Eric Lejeune	$84,309
66	Helen Spearman	$84,309
66	Craig Taylor	$84,309
66	Nest Stephen Van	$84,309
70	Garry Blasig	$84,136
71	Cristela Castillo	$84,018
72	Evan Norton	$84,000
73	Deborah Harris-Wiggins	$83,969
74	Gregory Ezzell	$83,839
75	Laverne Harrison	$83,785
76	Susan Werner	$83,783
77	James Friedman	$83,707
78	Sara Garcia	$83,518
79	Jane Leatherman	$83,339
79	Steven Seeds	$83,339
81	Larry Pipkin	$83,111
82	Arturo Guerrero	$83,018
82	Ronaldo Luna	$83,018
84	Christi Goods	$83,000
84	Scott Railsback	$83,000
84	Marcus Recek	$83,000
87	Stephen Rehberg	$82,805
88	Jack Williams Jr.	$82,760
89	Imelda Flowers	$82,413
90	Sonja Herrington	$82,408
91	John Johnson	$82,344
92	Cindy Hewlett	$82,339
92	Charles Howard	$82,339
94	Danuta Godlewski	$82,000
94	Juan Gonzalez	$82,000
94	Autumn Lord	$82,000
97	Cynthia Wood	$81,479
98	Randy Robinson	$81,408
99	Walter Kenion Jr.	$81,286
100	Lajju Patel	$81,001