Panhandle Times

Department of Information Resources paid an average compensation of $89,292 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	Hershel Becker	$195,000
1	Steven Pier	$195,000
1	Dale Richardson	$195,000
1	Nicholas Villalpando	$195,000
5	Amanda Crawford	$194,182
6	John Hoffman	$180,000
6	Edward Kelly	$180,000
6	Nancy Rainosek	$180,000
9	Wayne Egeler	$154,342
10	Sally Ward	$154,041
11	John Ellis	$150,000
12	Shane Swanson	$145,000
13	Jennifer Buaas	$131,856
14	Terese Shade	$130,348
15	Brady Vaughn	$130,012
16	Lisa Jammer	$130,000
16	Endi Silva	$130,000
18	Erik Freymuth	$125,000
18	Daniel Hankins	$125,000
18	Jeremy Wilson	$125,000
21	Steve Pyle	$124,122
22	Jodie Erickson	$122,822
23	Edathil Krishna Kumar Vellikkoth	$122,500
24	Paige Buechley	$122,000
25	John McKenzie	$120,750
26	Neil Cooke	$120,000
27	Gerardo Lopez	$119,552
28	Katherine Fite	$115,000
29	David Ballinger	$112,460
30	Aiko Neill	$111,935
31	Brad Helbig	$111,719
32	Kenneth Myers	$111,688
33	Wendy Mazzurana	$110,876
34	Colleen Whitney	$108,471
35	Nina Bozell	$108,000
35	Heidi Langdon	$108,000
35	Grady Roberts	$108,000
38	Raymond Bartek Jr.	$107,113
39	Suzanne Hilliard	$107,002
40	Thomas Niland	$106,126
41	Jonathan King	$106,009
42	Joe Poole	$106,001
43	Mark Howard	$105,982
44	Cody Holland	$105,000
44	Michael Malner	$105,000
44	Debra Mosley	$105,000
47	Yi Zhang	$103,491
48	Timothy Eargle	$103,325
49	Christopher David	$102,747
50	Elizabeth Cooper	$102,500
51	Phillip Clemens	$101,000
52	Eduardo Marquis	$100,695
53	Michael Kersey	$100,064
54	Brittney Paylor	$98,000
55	Linda Markey	$97,675
55	David Tucker	$97,675
57	Willie Adams	$96,302
58	Lynn Hodde	$96,025
59	Weldon Echols	$95,605
60	Meredith Noel	$95,594
61	Joy Bryant	$95,531
62	Mario Gutierrez	$95,277
63	Brian Hurdle	$95,000
64	Elizabeth Perry	$94,176
65	David Sims	$93,565
66	Jennifer Neutzler	$93,156
67	Mercedes Leal-Dominguez	$93,041
68	Matthew Kelly	$92,862
69	Stephanie Harrison	$92,729
70	Melissa Knezevic	$92,686
71	Daniel Otto	$92,028
72	Marie Cohan	$91,793
73	Stuart Walsh	$91,366
74	Patrick Larson	$91,254
75	William Fang	$91,164
76	Tammi Powell	$91,000
77	Jeffrey Kline	$90,722
78	Randa Maldonado	$90,714
79	Gary Arbuckle	$90,228
80	Bruce Speyer	$90,030
81	Brian Acklen	$90,000
82	Michael Malone	$89,981
83	Huong Nguyen	$89,727
84	Sue Atkinson	$88,947
85	Keith Chenoweth	$87,600
85	Daniel Saucedo	$87,600
85	Sheldy Starkes	$87,600
88	Wilson Agomuo	$87,500
88	Robert Benejam	$87,500
90	Matthew Warmke	$87,262
91	Mark Castillo	$87,000
92	Gras Bernard Le	$86,904
93	Matthew Hammock	$86,400
94	Kimberly Tanke	$86,235
95	Waqar Zaidi	$86,212
96	Amy Pfluger	$86,000
97	Adrian Marquez	$85,932
98	Sarah Noel	$85,526
99	Darren Gomez	$85,200
100	Carolyn Knowles	$85,061