North San Antonio News

Legislative Budget Board paid an average compensation of $91,240 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	Jerry McGinty II	$220,000
2	Andrew Blifford	$212,749
3	Wayne Pulver	$197,000
3	Nora Velasco-Herrera	$197,000
5	Matthew Medford	$182,000
5	Stewart Shallow	$182,000
5	Scott Dudley	$182,000
8	Leora Rodell	$157,474
9	Dmitry Rozinsky	$145,600
10	Mark Wiles	$140,079
11	Kevin Kavanaugh	$138,338
12	Malika Te	$134,000
13	Michael Vanderburg	$132,000
14	Bryan Ricke	$130,520
15	Melitta Berger	$130,000
16	Thomas Galvan	$127,000
17	Aaron Henricksen	$126,000
18	Alma White	$125,700
19	Paul Klein	$124,950
20	Dominic Craig	$123,000
21	Greg Owens	$122,223
22	Jordan Smith	$122,000
23	Marialaura Molina	$120,000
24	John Newton	$118,246
25	Samuel Xia	$117,202
26	Lena Conklin	$115,000
26	Benjamin Cross	$115,000
26	Catherine Fallon-Brown	$115,000
26	Sarah Glinsmann	$115,000
30	Kenneth Digravio	$114,425
31	Ruth Rosado	$113,828
32	Richard Corbell	$111,042
33	Christopher Mattsson	$110,000
33	Dushyanth Reddivari	$110,000
33	Joseph Shepherd	$110,000
36	Marlene Taplin	$105,000
37	Michelle Taylor	$104,475
38	George Purcell	$100,017
39	John Posey	$98,641
40	Theodore Holladay	$95,845
41	Cameron Cocke	$92,820
42	Kendall Garren	$92,405
43	Avery Saxe	$92,000
44	Ronnie Porfirio	$91,839
45	Scott Lewis	$91,477
46	George Dziuk III	$90,100
47	Kathryn Aldredge	$90,000
48	Michael Lasater	$86,782
49	Charles Riggs	$86,258
50	Kofi Effah	$86,145
51	Rachel Stegall	$85,000
52	James Kisamore	$84,525
53	Bryan Hadley	$83,880
54	Samantha Brock	$83,750
54	Rustin Dudley	$83,750
56	Elizabeth Vela	$82,500
57	Allen Greathouse	$81,000
58	Benjamin Davis	$80,325
59	Bradley White	$77,976
60	Mirna Gonzalez	$77,760
61	Jeffrey Ebberts	$76,290
62	Gina Sweetin	$75,000
63	John Montgomery	$73,000
64	Christopher Pace	$72,040
65	Daniela Fragoso	$71,500
66	Louellen Lowe	$71,400
67	Kelsey Vela	$71,080
68	Amit Patel	$70,000
68	Matthew Puckett	$70,000
68	Nicole Delaney	$70,000
71	Andrea Nikic	$70,000
72	Rebecca Stevenson	$69,452
73	Claire Stieg	$69,000
74	Pamela Bolton	$68,245
75	Mercedes Coleman	$67,308
76	Eric Solis-Arellano	$66,000
77	Andrew Overmyer	$65,600
78	Colin Brock	$65,468
79	Darren Albrecht	$65,438
80	Ramin Rohani	$65,000
81	Amanda Kilian	$65,000
82	Nicole Ascano	$64,625
83	Emily Navarrette	$63,547
84	Scott Zaskoda	$60,229
85	Dianna Fernald	$59,385
86	Krystle Cline	$58,000
87	Susannah Paul	$57,513
87	David Gillian	$57,513
89	Vakeetia Bunton	$57,165
90	Benilde Rocha-Cartwright	$56,408
91	Jessica Pena	$55,335
92	Michael Cooper	$55,000
92	Harrison Gregg	$55,000
92	Almas Kalhoro	$55,000
95	Khoi Tran	$54,863
96	Kniesha Niemann	$54,280
97	Emily Joslin	$54,000
98	Amanda Neil	$53,000
98	Meghan Peel	$53,000
100	Abraham Alvarenga	$51,500