Waco Reporter

Texas Department Of Motor Vehicles paid an average compensation of $54,281 during 2019, this was more 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	Whitney Brewster	$202,739
2	Shelly Mellott	$162,833
3	Linda Flores	$142,079
4	Jeremiah Kuntz	$138,375
5	Tracey Beaver	$135,000
6	Timothy Menke	$131,996
7	Daniel Avitia Jr.	$131,460
8	Wendy Barron	$130,902
9	Virginia Booton	$129,882
10	Corrie Thompson	$129,100
11	Caroline Love	$127,992
12	Sandra Menjivar-Suddeath	$124,855
13	James Archer	$123,624
14	Bryan Wilson	$120,159
15	Edward Sandoval	$120,005
16	Matthew Levitt	$120,000
17	Duwayne Murdock Jr.	$119,174
18	Timothy Thompson	$117,771
19	Aline Aucoin	$116,785
20	Sergio Rey	$114,000
21	Brian Ge	$110,000
22	Adrienne Carter	$109,200
22	Angel Cruz	$109,200
22	Caryn Kirk	$109,200
25	Clarence Richards	$108,827
26	Tom Shindell	$108,000
27	Deborah Hujar	$107,328
28	Christopher Kanute	$103,408
29	Robert Blech	$102,000
30	Stuart Thompson	$101,601
31	Katharine Drummond	$101,500
32	Blake Randow	$98,400
33	Ladonna Castanuela	$98,232
34	Elizabeth Pierce	$98,000
34	Jolly Pathak	$98,000
36	John Green	$97,380
37	Reuben Patschke	$96,229
38	Andrew Kang	$95,940
39	Heather Pierce	$95,004
40	Joseph Grace	$94,800
41	Elizabeth Bell	$94,101
42	Robert Castaneda	$94,008
43	Robin Lingo	$93,721
44	Madhuri Parvathreddy	$93,600
45	William Diggs	$93,060
46	Matthew Miller	$92,498
47	Richard Goldsmith	$92,483
48	Shawn Hammond	$92,000
49	Kevin B. Lowrie	$90,450
50	Christopher Harrigan	$90,393
50	Adam Shaivitz	$90,393
52	Carolyn Fallin	$90,171
53	Pamela Petry	$90,000
54	Biswajit Das	$89,467
55	David Flathmann	$89,343
56	Sean Knox	$88,800
57	Patrick Coats	$88,440
58	Mimi Shelton	$88,185
59	Candace Southerland	$88,020
60	Mehrdad Babai-Pirouz	$88,000
61	Robert Rice	$86,369
62	Christopher Sturm	$85,305
63	John Poole III	$84,245
64	Kevin Butts	$84,116
65	Dean Lamb	$84,000
66	Dawn Burton	$83,640
66	Hettie Meisel	$83,640
66	Damien Shores	$83,640
69	Drake Kirk	$83,147
70	Stefan Krisch	$82,720
71	Schon Connaker	$82,500
72	David George Jr.	$82,429
73	Daniel Price	$82,200
74	Melissa Bennett	$81,780
75	Priscilla Ortuno	$81,600
76	Mayson Pearson	$81,000
77	Tony Hall	$80,000
78	Eric Hearon	$79,442
79	Derrick Miller	$78,552
80	Darnell Morgan	$78,000
81	Patricia Ueckert	$77,942
82	Joseph Greenfield	$77,862
83	Earl Pearson	$77,700
84	Connie Green	$76,274
85	Janet Williams	$76,200
86	Deborah Raef	$75,776
87	Jeffrey Templeton	$75,735
88	Lisa Selvera	$75,651
89	Ana Roesch	$75,462
90	Charlotte Kirk	$75,116
91	Tracy Godfrey	$75,102
92	Rajendran Anu Ambika	$75,000
92	Jason Gonzalez	$75,000
92	Dhruti Motipara	$75,000
95	Charles Wilson	$74,834
96	Patricia Combs	$74,812
97	Margaret Barker	$74,684
97	Tana Keeling	$74,684
99	Meghashyam Ramavath	$74,400
100	Edward Omahony	$74,356