Hill Country Chronicle

Legislative Budget Board paid an average compensation of $90,062 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	Andrew Blifford	$212,749
2	Wayne Pulver	$177,500
3	Amy Wood	$156,000
4	Leora Rodell	$152,150
5	Scott Dudley	$150,525
6	Stewart Shallow	$146,541
7	Leslie Cathey	$140,734
8	Dmitry Rozinsky	$140,000
9	Mark Wiles	$136,000
10	Andrew MacLaurin	$133,225
11	Kevin Kavanaugh	$131,750
12	Debra Seale-Shaffer	$130,960
13	Bryan Ricke	$125,500
14	Melitta Berger	$123,443
15	Thomas Galvan	$123,000
16	Nora Velasco-Herrera	$122,836
17	Dominic Craig	$120,000
17	Michael Vanderburg	$120,000
19	Greg Owens	$119,242
20	Paul Klein	$119,000
21	Alma White	$118,563
22	Shelton Green	$118,000
23	Marialaura Molina	$116,857
24	John Newton	$115,362
25	Samuel Xia	$112,694
26	Ruth Rosado	$111,052
27	Aaron Henricksen	$111,042
28	Kenneth Digravio	$110,025
29	Matthew Medford	$110,000
30	Catherine Fallon-Brown	$105,076
31	Jordan Smith	$103,500
32	Michelle Taylor	$99,500
33	John Posey	$96,236
34	George Purcell	$95,711
35	Benjamin Cross	$94,000
36	Cameron Cocke	$92,820
37	Ronnie Porfirio	$89,599
38	Lena Conklin	$89,000
39	Kendall Garren	$88,851
40	Scott Lewis	$88,813
41	Theodore Holladay	$88,746
42	George Dziuk III	$85,000
43	Kofi Effah	$84,456
44	Joseph Shepherd	$84,138
45	Charles Riggs	$82,941
46	Michael Lasater	$82,650
47	Sarah Glinsmann	$82,000
48	Bryan Hadley	$81,438
49	Austin Kupke	$81,000
50	James Kisamore	$80,500
51	Dushyanth Reddivari	$80,000
51	Suzanne Tolley	$80,000
53	Benjamin Davis	$76,500
54	Christopher Mattsson	$74,500
55	Bradley White	$73,216
56	Jeffrey Ebberts	$72,313
57	Emily Schmidt	$69,000
58	Samantha Brock	$67,000
58	Rustin Dudley	$67,000
60	John Montgomery	$66,875
61	Rebecca Stevenson	$65,213
62	Andrew Overmyer	$64,000
63	Kelsey Vela	$63,500
64	Mercedes Coleman	$63,200
65	Christopher Pace	$63,000
66	Pamela Bolton	$62,900
67	Andrea Nikic	$62,500
68	Colin Brock	$60,900
69	Daniela Fragoso	$60,050
70	Emily Navarrette	$59,950
71	Louellen Lowe	$59,500
72	Eric Solis-Arellano	$59,000
73	Claire Stieg	$57,500
74	Scott Zaskoda	$57,361
75	Darren Albrecht	$55,500
75	Vakeetia Bunton	$55,500
75	Dianna Fernald	$55,500
78	Hannah Lopez	$55,000
79	Benilde Rocha-Cartwright	$54,500
80	David Gillian	$53,500
80	Susannah Paul	$53,500
82	Nicole Ascano	$53,000
83	Jessica Pena	$52,700
83	Kniesha Niemann	$52,700
85	Shauna Miller	$52,500
85	Khoi Tran	$52,500
87	Amanda Kilian	$52,000
88	Abraham Alvarenga	$51,500
89	Joshua Gautreaux	$45,000
89	Cole Shanquetta Lewis	$45,000