Panhandle Times

Legislative Reference Library paid an average compensation of $52,248 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	Mary Camp	$131,969
2	Catherine Wusterhausen	$100,075
3	David Wood	$62,738
4	Karen McBurney	$62,491
5	Melanie Harshman	$61,402
6	Anna Wood	$58,584
7	Ana Sifuentes-Martinez	$58,532
8	Kaelyn Morice	$50,000
9	Michelle Martinez	$49,384
10	Brandon Vasquez	$49,125
11	Alexandra Dzienkowski	$45,000
12	Kali Palmer	$44,576
13	Suzanne Buchanan	$42,000
13	Linna Dean	$42,000
13	Mickey Lanning	$42,000
16	Julia Walden	$41,379
17	James Young	$33,560
18	Karen Wright	$33,306
19	Vincent Cowan	$30,840
20	Amber Baade	$29,120
20	Christopher Taylor	$29,120