Waco Reporter

Office of the Governor paid an average compensation of $85,771 during 2020, this was more 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	Jordan Hale	$265,000
1	Sarah Hicks	$265,000
1	Mark Miner	$265,000
1	Gardner Pate	$265,000
1	Luis Saenz	$265,000
6	Jeffrey Oldham	$227,700
7	John Wittman	$227,700
8	Angela Colmenero	$178,538
8	James Sullivan	$178,538
10	Peggy Venable	$170,465
11	Suzanne Johnson	$170,000
12	Gregory Abbott	$153,750
13	William Franks	$129,842
14	Jacqueline Merrick	$129,000
15	Lindsey Aston	$127,305
16	Renae Eze	$127,000
17	Chelsea Holden	$125,007
18	Theresa Boland	$122,980
19	Jeffrey Smith	$120,286
20	Courtney Hjaltman	$120,000
20	Jordan Stowers	$120,000
20	Tabatha Vasquez	$120,000
23	Gregory Davidson	$119,000
24	Heather Fleming	$118,804
25	Anna Marie Thompson	$114,688
26	Katie Taylor	$113,124
27	Cobey Fletcher	$110,256
28	Erin Bennett	$110,000
29	Kenneth Moreland	$108,675
30	Brent Connett	$105,351
31	Brenda Foster	$105,000
32	Doris Keith	$102,719
33	Brendan Berver	$102,336
34	Christopher Warren	$98,792
35	David Shoemaker	$97,108
36	Michael Hull	$96,000
37	Catarina Gonzales	$94,813
38	Joseph Behnke	$94,500
38	Stephanie Greger	$94,500
40	Neil Kibbe	$92,000
41	Deborah King	$91,765
42	Ryland Ramos	$91,200
43	Serafina Chandler	$90,384
44	Anna Lee	$90,312
45	Benjamin Barkley	$90,000
45	Sallie Bentley	$90,000
45	Jason Briggs	$90,000
45	Sydni Mitchell	$90,000
49	Elizabeth Farley	$86,000
50	Lynn Gunn	$85,696
51	Marios Parpounas	$85,056
52	Julie Davis	$85,008
53	Brent Novosad	$84,479
54	Philip Peroyea	$84,000
55	Jeremy Newman	$83,196
56	Richard Costello	$81,344
57	Frank Reynolds	$80,475
58	Christopher Smith	$80,150
59	Leda Bastidas	$80,004
60	Kieran Hillis	$80,000
61	Patrick Gannon	$79,008
62	Lucinda Villarreal	$78,953
63	Adrienne Cabrera	$78,000
64	Andrea McGhee	$76,800
65	David Brown	$76,200
66	Munaver Yusufali	$75,259
67	Cassidy Daniel	$75,029
68	Dennis Herberger Jr.	$75,000
68	Johanna Meade	$75,000
68	Angela Ossar	$75,000
71	Ainslie Ellis	$72,000
71	Tegan Vought	$72,000
73	Jordan Ballard	$70,008
74	Matthew Culbertson	$70,000
74	Stacy Knause	$70,000
76	Nelda Sturgeon	$69,444
77	Torres Ramon Carpena	$67,212
78	Blake Roach	$66,696
79	Irma Heinrich	$66,000
80	Wendy Nelson	$65,712
81	Morgan Stewart	$65,004
82	Amanda Adamez	$65,000
82	Brice Corkill	$65,000
82	Nancy Tolson	$65,000
85	Lisa Martin	$63,960
86	Ana Vargas	$63,894
87	Sharon Kavanaugh	$63,500
88	Fernando Calderon Jr.	$62,448
89	Bernadette Riles	$62,400
90	Spencer Cummings	$61,000
91	Madelaine Wolfe	$60,000
91	Alexandria Vandiver	$60,000
93	Marta Salinas	$59,000
94	Sarah Kirkgard	$58,000
95	Angela Mitchell	$57,312
96	Pamela Wells	$56,808
97	Norma Magirl	$56,199
98	Helen Martinez	$55,908
99	Sophia Sanchez	$55,608
100	Carmela Davis	$55,104