Waco Reporter

Credit Union Department paid an average compensation of $85,141 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 Kolhoff	$190,000
2	Robert Etheridge	$151,420
3	Mark Buie	$133,510
4	Kerry Strickland	$124,475
5	Kisheena Williams	$117,420
6	Yolanda Dumas	$113,318
7	Michael Riepen	$108,570
8	Joel Arevalo	$106,617
9	John Lee	$103,491
10	Presley Norris	$81,316
11	Robert Reid	$74,730
12	Winnefred Jackson	$73,854
13	Frank Carter	$73,208
14	Maria Velasquez	$71,946
15	Dirk Anderson	$71,935
16	Glenn Cook	$71,070
17	Nicholas Kramer	$64,846
18	Clemensia Cisneros	$64,534
18	Andrew Eubanks	$64,534
18	Becerra Dulce Garcia	$64,534
18	Jestin Joseph	$64,534
22	Roderick Lusk	$63,914
23	Michael Nguyen	$62,052
24	Araceli Castro	$57,467
25	Joshua Rojas	$51,647
26	Patricia Bryant	$41,460
27	Flor Gomez	$32,400