Waco Reporter

Health and Human Services Commission paid an average compensation of $43,197 during 2020, this was less than the public employee average of $51,794, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Brian Guthrie, who earned $754,275 as the executive director at the Teacher Retirement System.

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	Cecile Young	$290,258
2	Magdalene Hopkins	$270,000
2	Satyajit Satpathy	$270,000
2	Lesia Trickett	$270,000
2	John Harper	$270,000
2	Jisha Philip	$270,000
2	Emilie Attwell	$270,000
2	Karola White	$270,000
9	Bethany Hughes	$268,840
10	Jeffery Matthews	$265,000
10	Felix Torres	$265,000
12	Arthur Austin	$261,374
13	David Gonzalez	$260,000
13	Ames Marquez	$260,000
13	Daniel Evans	$260,000
13	Nikolaus Kubista	$260,000
13	Md David Moron	$260,000
13	Dhaval Parikh	$260,000
13	Mark Messer	$260,000
20	Tran Quan	$252,883
21	Giorgio Sant\'Ambrogio	$251,652
21	John Tobis	$251,652
21	Jyotsna Muttineni	$251,652
21	Thu Le	$251,652
21	Rakesh Chadalavada	$251,652
21	Azka Bilal	$251,652
21	James Boger	$251,652
21	Barbara Beadles	$251,652
21	Diana Isachievici	$251,652
21	Charlene Shero	$251,652
31	Roman Eliza San	$251,651
32	Brian Ferris	$250,000
32	Zahida Samad	$250,000
32	Altamash Qureshi	$250,000
32	Tara Wagner	$250,000
36	Deepti Vats	$249,998
36	Mitchell Dunn	$249,998
36	Ivanshu Jain	$249,998
36	Paul Sobin	$249,998
36	Mohammed El-Awady	$249,998
36	Ankit Parmar	$249,998
42	Scott Murry	$249,363
43	Ashton Wickramasinghe	$248,340
44	Renu Anupindi	$246,769
44	Aysha Sabri	$246,769
46	Guido Spangher	$246,709
47	Roger Joe	$246,000
47	Michael Murray	$246,000
47	Olumuyiwa Abdul	$246,000
47	Cheryl Hodges	$246,000
47	Lynn Malseed-Luspin	$246,000
52	George Howland Jr.	$245,000
52	Steven Cathey	$245,000
52	Stephen Poplar Jr.	$245,000
52	Sobia Khurram	$245,000
52	Martin Guerrero	$245,000
52	Ramona Rogers	$245,000
52	Feroz Yaqoob	$245,000
52	Zahida Syed	$245,000
52	Carmen Zegarra	$245,000
52	Praveen Madadi	$245,000
52	David Hager	$245,000
52	Kerrie Shrewsbury	$245,000
52	Satyajeet Lahiri	$245,000
52	Patrick Fallon	$245,000
52	Daniel Villarreal	$245,000
52	Ellis Civello	$245,000
52	Carmen Mier	$245,000
52	Rohini Ravindran	$245,000
52	Priyanka Chava	$245,000
52	Geraldine Farias-Daniels	$245,000
52	Fayaz Ibrahim	$245,000
52	Abimbola Layeni	$245,000
52	Feroza Talukdar	$245,000
52	Robert Bouchat	$245,000
52	Stephen Dai	$245,000
52	Vicky Litton	$245,000
52	Matthew Hopkins	$245,000
52	Daniel Leal	$245,000
52	Umamaheswara Velama	$245,000
52	Kevin Brown	$245,000
52	Erik Blois	$245,000
52	Ovidiu Dulgheru	$245,000
52	Patricia Caballero	$245,000
52	Kumud Joshi	$245,000
52	Fady Fayek	$245,000
52	Rajendra Daniel	$245,000
52	Rosario Rodriguez	$245,000
52	Larry Hawkins	$245,000
52	Susrutha Thanam	$245,000
52	Reddy Srinivasa Reddy Donthi	$245,000
52	Victoria Ford	$245,000
52	Ammatuna Elena Gonzalez	$245,000
52	Mahmoud Mohamed	$245,000
52	Andrey Tsyss	$245,000
52	Andrea Wright	$245,000
52	Erica Snook	$245,000
52	Crispin Juguilon	$245,000
52	Shiraj Vahora	$245,000
52	Jennifer Wright	$245,000