Waco Reporter

Savings And Loan Department paid an average compensation of $74,246 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	Caroline Jones	$194,750
2	Ernesto Garcia	$157,320
3	Antonia Antov	$151,572
3	Steven O'Shields	$151,572
5	Tony Florence	$147,300
6	Stephany Trotti	$145,212
7	Wm Johnson	$108,144
7	Teresa Nelson	$108,144
9	Susanna Blevins	$106,428
10	Blair Boyd	$96,324
11	Georgia Simmons	$90,000
12	Andrea Kuhnert	$89,400
13	Kenneth Brock	$88,440
14	Lanny Odle	$86,520
15	Iain Berry	$80,004
16	Ellena Meier	$77,496
17	Billy Poe	$76,140
18	Justin Accola	$75,396
19	Xerxes Pascua	$72,792
20	Devyn Wills	$70,020
21	Debra Dupont	$69,360
22	Juanita Recio	$66,480
23	Ren Crochet	$66,060
24	Ralph Hicks	$65,400
25	Keith Zimmerman	$62,496
26	Deana Dykes	$61,464
27	Wright Ruth Pestana	$61,428
28	Meriane Carter	$60,660
28	Patrick Hulse	$60,660
30	Terry McFarland	$60,636
31	Julianna Schwab	$58,500
32	Maricruz Hinojosa	$55,692
33	Asonya Barrett	$52,548
34	Samantha Tiner	$52,296
35	Jose Villa	$51,060
36	Daryl Elliott	$49,224
37	Maria Pysor	$47,976
38	Lashondra Houston	$46,608
39	Adan Ramirez	$46,452
40	Fabiola Bernal	$46,308
41	Cora Peck	$46,152
42	Deborah Myers	$46,092
43	Michael Stoker	$44,556
44	Julian Quinones-Reyes	$43,920
45	Joseph Stevens	$39,312
46	Jaime Canelos	$38,268
47	Warren Magjarevich	$36,300
48	Francis Navarro	$34,800
49	Katherine Brite	$34,404
50	Camille Woods	$34,200