Waco Reporter

Department Of Information Resources paid an average compensation of $89,771 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	Todd Kimbriel	$210,000
2	Hershel Becker	$195,000
2	Steven Pier	$195,000
4	Amanda Crawford	$194,182
5	Dale Richardson	$180,000
5	Nicholas Villalpando	$180,000
7	John Hoffman	$169,830
8	Edward Kelly	$151,290
9	Nancy Rainosek	$151,200
10	Joseph Schneider	$150,000
11	Sally Ward	$146,706
12	Wayne Egeler	$145,606
13	Andrew Bennett	$142,500
14	Reginold Pegues	$140,954
15	Terese Shade	$130,348
16	Jennifer Buaas	$125,578
17	Jonathan Oquinn	$125,000
17	Jeremy Wilson	$125,000
19	Steve Pyle	$124,122
20	Jodie Erickson	$122,822
21	Edathil Krishna Kumar Vellikkoth	$122,500
22	Paige Buechley	$122,000
23	Lisa Jammer	$120,000
24	Gerardo Lopez	$119,552
25	Robert Armstrong	$115,500
26	John McKenzie	$115,000
27	David Ballinger	$112,460
28	Allan Martin	$112,075
29	Aiko Neill	$111,935
30	Brad Helbig	$111,719
31	Endi Silva	$111,195
32	Wendy Mazzurana	$110,876
33	David Brown	$109,625
34	Colleen Whitney	$108,471
35	Heidi Langdon	$108,000
35	Grady Roberts	$108,000
37	Raymond Bartek Jr.	$107,113
38	Kenneth Myers	$106,369
39	Joe Poole	$106,001
40	Katherine Fite	$105,742
41	Cody Holland	$105,000
41	Michael Malner	$105,000
41	Debra Mosley	$105,000
44	Erik Freymuth	$104,481
45	Delores Williams	$104,261
46	Daniel Hankins	$103,824
47	Yi Zhang	$103,491
48	Timothy Eargle	$103,325
49	Suzanne Hilliard	$102,669
50	Elizabeth Cooper	$102,500
51	Mark Howard	$102,497
52	Joan Scott	$101,336
53	Thomas Niland	$101,073
54	Phillip Clemens	$101,000
55	Eduardo Marquis	$100,695
56	Michael Kersey	$100,064
57	Julie Buchanan	$99,497
58	Linda Markey	$97,675
58	David Tucker	$97,675
60	Monty Black	$96,733
61	Willie Adams	$96,302
62	Lynn Hodde	$96,025
63	Weldon Echols	$95,605
64	Meredith Noel	$95,594
65	Joy Bryant	$95,531
66	Mario Gutierrez	$95,277
67	Christopher David	$95,000
68	Elizabeth Perry	$94,176
69	David Sims	$93,565
70	Jennifer Neutzler	$93,156
71	Mercedes Leal-Dominguez	$93,041
72	Matthew Kelly	$92,862
73	Melissa Knezevic	$92,686
74	Daniel Otto	$92,028
75	Marie Cohan	$91,793
76	Stuart Walsh	$91,366
77	Patrick Larson	$91,254
78	William Fang	$91,164
79	Jeffrey Kline	$90,722
80	Randa Maldonado	$90,714
81	Harold Lane	$90,571
82	Barry Dersh	$90,477
83	Gary Arbuckle	$90,228
84	Bruce Speyer	$90,030
85	Michael Malone	$89,981
86	Huong Nguyen	$89,727
87	Sue Atkinson	$88,947
88	Sandy Fang	$88,779
89	Keith Chenoweth	$87,600
89	Daniel Saucedo	$87,600
89	Sheldy Starkes	$87,600
92	Wilson Agomuo	$87,500
92	Robert Benejam	$87,500
94	Matthew Warmke	$87,262
95	Gras Bernard Le	$86,904
96	Matthew Hammock	$86,400
97	Waqar Zaidi	$86,212
98	Amy Pfluger	$86,000
99	Adrian Marquez	$85,932
100	Walter Fraser	$85,530