Panhandle Times

Legislative Reference Library paid an average compensation of $56,176 during 2021, this was more than the public employee average of $55,188, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Beau Michelle Le, who earned $608,850 as the chief scientific officer at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

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	$165,000
2	Catherine Wusterhausen	$106,075
3	Karen McBurney	$66,091
4	David Wood	$65,858
5	Melanie Harshman	$64,402
6	Anna Wood	$61,584
7	Ana Sifuentes-Martinez	$58,532
8	Kaelyn Morice	$57,200
9	Brandon Vasquez	$55,125
10	Michelle Martinez	$49,384
11	Kali Palmer	$48,176
12	Alexandra Dzienkowski	$45,000
12	Linna Dean	$45,000
14	Colton Chambers	$42,000
14	Suzanne Buchanan	$42,000
16	Julia Walden	$41,379
17	James Young	$36,560
18	Karen Wright	$35,386
19	Amber Baade	$32,120
20	Christopher Taylor	$31,992
21	Vincent Cowan	$30,840