Panhandle Times

General Land Office and Veteran's Land Board paid an average compensation of $79,800 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	John Martin	$276,816
2	Mark Havens	$224,203
3	Jeffery Gordon	$205,504
4	John Berkely	$200,631
5	Brian Carter	$189,276
6	David Repp	$178,464
7	Brent McNguyen	$172,800
8	Heather Urbanovsky-Lagrone	$172,600
9	David Green	$170,000
10	Hector Valle	$169,440
11	Cory Wilburn	$168,043
12	Marc Barenblat	$158,995
13	Mark Lambert	$158,244
14	Robert Hatter	$158,213
15	Wiley Collier	$156,963
16	Jeffery Kauffmann	$155,634
17	David Land	$155,328
18	Wendy Foster	$153,504
19	John Hernandez	$153,000
20	Charlotte Mumphord	$151,008
21	Angela Williams	$148,800
22	Tracey Hall	$145,416
23	Mitchell Armstrong	$144,456
24	Alan McWilliams	$143,615
25	Eric Brown	$143,434
26	Russell May	$143,406
27	Jimmy Martinez	$143,312
28	Martin Rivera Jr.	$143,002
29	Mark McAnally	$141,982
30	George Bush	$140,938
31	Anthony Williams	$140,400
31	Melissa Porter	$140,400
33	Jose Montalvo	$138,000
33	Shiva Peterson	$138,000
35	Jessica Johnston	$136,885
36	Jet Hays	$136,500
37	Pamela Mathews	$136,302
38	Rebecca Taylor	$135,208
39	Mark Neugebauer	$134,855
40	Mary Williams	$134,297
41	Stacey McClure	$133,686
42	Kelly McBride	$133,242
43	Stephen Fouchek	$132,000
44	Christa Lopez	$131,668
45	Susan Dorsey	$129,088
46	Kenneth Mills	$128,544
47	Brittany Eck	$125,582
48	Vonda White	$125,354
49	Suzanne Loy	$125,354
50	Kathy Johanns	$125,054
51	Earl Renfrow	$123,267
52	Karina Erickson	$120,840
53	Kaleb Bennett	$120,432
54	Elizabeth Ozuna	$120,000
55	Jennifer Molinari	$118,569
56	Thomas Ortiz	$117,266
57	Steve Buschang	$116,855
58	Colleen Jones	$116,525
59	Juan Sanchez	$115,200
60	Michael Ashton-Moore	$114,300
61	Alexandra Gamble	$113,570
62	Cynthia Hudson	$113,447
63	John Kelley	$113,292
64	Susan Sergent	$112,622
65	Angela Sunley	$112,476
66	Amanda Grantham	$112,000
67	Patricia Ewing	$111,996
68	Brian Raygon	$111,913
69	Kimilia Mangum	$111,796
70	Telina Grayson	$111,303
71	Billy McClure Jr.	$110,568
72	Stanley Johnson	$110,512
73	Dequincy Adamson	$110,244
74	Joseph May	$110,118
75	Sharon Matthews	$110,100
76	Abigael McClean	$110,076
77	Jason Storey	$110,000
78	Lashaundra Watley-Seale	$109,572
79	Burton Minton	$108,939
80	Molly Keller	$108,657
81	James Harkins	$108,282
82	Garrison McCully	$108,000
83	Amy Nunez	$107,717
84	Joseph Kartye	$107,623
85	Jeffrey Caudle	$107,580
86	Deirdre Stites	$106,991
87	Adelita Barrientos	$106,649
88	Eric Perales	$106,580
89	Frank Zepeda	$106,500
90	Paul Botello	$106,367
91	Jeffrey Crozier	$106,002
92	Dora Rivera	$105,547
93	Christopher Reynolds	$105,060
94	Scot Friedman	$105,000
95	Alyson Chensasky	$104,832
96	Lance White	$104,377
97	Andrew Hawkins	$104,230
98	Stephanie Crenshaw	$104,182
99	Catharine Seed	$104,008
100	Scottie Aplin	$103,863