Waco Reporter

General Land Office And Veteran's Land Board paid an average compensation of $80,116 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	John Martin	$276,816
2	Mark Havens	$224,203
3	Jeffery Gordon	$205,504
4	John Berkely	$200,631
5	William Wood	$185,664
6	Brian Carter	$182,000
7	Greg Pollock	$180,196
8	Heather Urbanovsky-Lagrone	$172,600
9	David Repp	$171,600
10	Hector Valle	$169,440
11	Brent McNguyen	$167,099
12	Cory Wilburn	$161,580
13	Wiley Collier	$156,963
14	Robert Hatter	$154,898
15	John Hernandez	$153,000
16	Marc Barenblat	$152,880
17	Mark Lambert	$152,158
18	Jeffery Kauffmann	$152,135
19	David Green	$150,478
20	David Land	$149,354
21	Angela Williams	$148,800
22	Molly Quirk	$147,420
23	Bryce Bales	$146,341
24	Charlotte Mumphord	$145,200
25	Eric Brown	$143,434
26	Jimmy Martinez	$143,312
27	George Bush	$140,938
28	Melissa Porter	$140,400
28	Anthony Williams	$140,400
30	Mitchell Armstrong	$138,900
31	Alan McWilliams	$138,893
32	Russell May	$138,691
33	Mark McAnally	$137,313
34	Jet Hays	$136,500
35	Christa Lopez	$131,668
36	Rebecca Taylor	$130,008
37	Martin Rivera Jr.	$130,002
38	Shiva Peterson	$129,900
39	Mark Neugebauer	$129,558
40	Jessica Johnston	$129,137
41	Mary Williams	$129,132
42	Susan Dorsey	$129,088
43	Pamela Mathews	$128,802
44	Stacey McClure	$128,544
45	Stephen Fouchek	$128,500
46	Kelly McBride	$128,118
47	Karina Erickson	$127,200
48	Kathy Johanns	$125,054
49	Kenneth Mills	$124,800
50	Jose Montalvo	$122,100
51	Brittany Eck	$120,752
52	Kaleb Bennett	$120,432
53	Suzanne Loy	$118,259
54	Earl Renfrow	$117,397
55	Thomas Ortiz	$117,266
56	Steve Buschang	$116,855
57	Jennifer Molinari	$115,004
58	Angela Sunley	$112,476
59	Kimilia Mangum	$111,796
60	Elizabeth Ozuna	$111,691
61	David Pyle	$111,100
62	Vonda White	$110,972
63	Michael Ashton-Moore	$110,700
64	Cynthia Hudson	$110,250
65	Dequincy Adamson	$110,244
66	Colleen Jones	$110,000
66	Jason Storey	$110,000
68	Juan Sanchez	$109,920
69	Lashaundra Watley-Seale	$109,572
70	Burton Minton	$108,939
71	Brian Raygon	$108,653
72	Susan Sergent	$108,291
73	James Harkins	$108,282
74	Alexandra Gamble	$108,162
75	Billy McClure Jr.	$106,932
76	Joseph May	$106,911
77	Jeffrey Jandt	$106,843
78	Patricia Ewing	$105,600
78	Amanda Grantham	$105,600
80	Telina Grayson	$105,500
81	Stanley Johnson	$105,249
82	Sharon Matthews	$105,000
82	Garrison McCully	$105,000
84	Amy Nunez	$104,580
85	Joseph Kartye	$104,489
86	Jeffrey Crozier	$104,002
87	Abigael McClean	$103,845
88	G. Kuhles	$103,462
89	Jeffrey Caudle	$103,442
90	Brandon Myers	$103,200
91	David Little	$103,144
92	Molly Keller	$102,993
93	Deirdre Stites	$102,876
94	Paul Botello	$102,770
95	Logue Susan Dooley	$102,682
96	Claire McKinney	$102,658
97	Frank Zepeda	$102,600
98	Christopher Reynolds	$102,000
99	Scot Friedman	$101,700
100	Dora Rivera	$101,482