Hill Country Chronicle

Public Utility Commission Of Texas paid an average compensation of $78,339 during 2019, this was more than the public employee average of $51,268, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest paid public employee in Texas was James Willson, who earned $553,500 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	Shelly Botkin	$201,000
1	Arthur D'Andrea	$201,000
1	Deann Walker	$201,000
4	John Urban III	$200,000
5	Stephen Journeay	$180,000
6	Thomas Gleeson	$172,800
7	Constance Corona	$160,000
8	Andrew Barlow	$140,000
8	Margaret Pemberton	$140,000
8	Keith Rogas	$140,000
8	Darryl Tietjen	$140,000
8	Rebecca Zerwas	$140,000
13	Adrianne Brandt	$135,000
13	Davida Dwyer	$135,000
13	Philip English	$135,000
13	Robert Long	$135,000
13	Michael Phillips	$135,000
18	Benter Tammy Holguin	$125,000
18	Shelah Cisneros	$125,000
18	Mark Hovenkamp	$125,000
18	Rachelle Robles	$125,000
22	Hunter Burkhalter	$120,000
23	Charles Bondurant	$115,000
23	Richard Burch	$115,000
25	William Abbott	$112,000
25	Anna Givens	$112,000
27	Angela Wolf	$110,000
27	Diana Zake	$110,000
29	Mary Beck	$106,000
30	Wyman Constance McDaniel	$105,000
31	Heath Armstrong	$100,000
31	Kasey Feldman-Thomason	$100,000
31	Michael Hoke	$100,000
31	Taylor Kilroy	$100,000
35	Therese Harris	$97,400
36	James Coffman	$95,000
36	Heidi Graham	$95,000
36	Debi Loockerman	$95,000
39	Jay Stone	$93,600
40	Smith Gina Misquez	$90,000
40	Rashmin Asher	$90,000
40	Eleanor D'Ambrosio	$90,000
40	Steven Leary	$90,000
40	Richard Nemer	$90,000
40	Christopher Oakley	$90,000
40	Parrish Pratt	$90,000
40	David Smeltzer	$90,000
48	Kristen Mendoza	$88,000
48	Bruce Westmoreland	$88,000
50	Mark Bryant	$86,260
51	Adrian Hazard	$85,750
52	Mark Filarowicz	$85,000
53	Clifton Crouch	$84,600
54	Jesus Morales Jr.	$80,200
55	Lisa Fuentes	$80,100
56	Kristin Abbott	$80,000
56	Harika Basaran	$80,000
56	Jenna King	$80,000
56	Rustin Tawater	$80,000
56	Paytyn Woltersdorf	$80,000
56	Alaina Zermeno	$80,000
62	Jose Luna	$78,408
63	David Bautista	$77,400
64	Ruth Stark	$76,956
65	Michael Sanford	$76,000
66	James Kelsaw Jr.	$75,600
67	John Frederick	$75,000
67	Stephen Mendoza	$75,000
67	Ew Saelee	$75,000
67	Emily Sears	$75,000
71	Diane Hopingardner	$74,750
72	Gregory Charles	$74,400
72	John Poole	$74,400
74	Jorge Ordonez	$74,000
75	Werner Roth	$73,500
76	Alicia Maloy	$72,400
76	Reginald Tuvilla	$72,400
78	Leila Guerrero	$72,000
79	Patricia Garcia	$71,600
80	Ernest Garcia	$71,000
81	Richard Saldana	$70,585
82	Kavitha Anandan	$70,000
82	John Harrison	$70,000
82	David Hoard	$70,000
82	Creighton McMurray	$70,000
82	Nancy Palma	$70,000
82	Corey Pemberton	$70,000
88	Tracy Montes	$69,400
89	Fred Goodwin	$68,641
90	Cynthia Guerrero	$68,200
91	Fred Bednarski III	$68,000
92	Jolie Mathis	$67,593
93	Ramya Ramaswamy	$67,400
94	Jionne Harnsberry	$67,000
94	Emily Young	$67,000
96	Laurie Wharton	$66,000
97	Garcia Alfonso Hernandez	$65,000
97	Harold Kohl	$65,000
97	Jeffrey Wirth	$65,000
97	Nabaraj Pokharel	$65,000