Hill Country Chronicle

Texas Department of Motor Vehicles paid an average compensation of $55,396 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	Whitney Brewster	$202,739
2	Shelly Mellott	$162,833
3	Daniel Avitia Jr.	$155,000
4	William Grote	$151,656
5	Linda Flores	$147,079
6	Tracey Beaver	$141,000
7	Roland Luna	$138,372
8	Virginia Booton	$135,882
9	Timothy Menke	$131,996
10	Corrie Thompson	$129,100
11	James Archer	$128,624
12	Sandra Menjivar-Suddeath	$128,601
13	Caroline Love	$127,992
14	Edward Sandoval	$125,005
15	Monique Johnston	$125,000
15	Matthew Levitt	$125,000
17	Duwayne Murdock Jr.	$123,374
18	Bryan Wilson	$120,159
19	Wendy Barron	$119,000
20	Leah Leone	$118,000
21	Timothy Thompson	$117,771
22	Aline Aucoin	$116,785
23	Sergio Rey	$114,000
24	Brian Ge	$110,000
25	Caryn Kirk	$109,200
25	Kevin Cox	$109,200
25	Angel Cruz	$109,200
25	Hector Yanez	$109,200
29	Clarence Richards	$108,827
30	Tom Shindell	$108,000
31	Deborah Hujar	$107,328
32	Christopher Kanute	$103,408
33	Robert Blech	$102,000
34	Stuart Thompson	$101,601
35	Katharine Drummond	$101,500
36	Joseph Grace	$98,592
37	Eric Horn	$98,400
38	Ladonna Castanuela	$98,232
39	Elizabeth Pierce	$98,000
40	Jacqueline Jarvis	$97,992
41	Terry Cowart	$96,720
42	Reuben Patschke	$96,229
43	William Diggs	$96,224
44	John Kawas	$96,000
44	Jeffrey Armstrong	$96,000
46	Andrew Kang	$95,940
47	Heather Pierce	$95,004
48	James Bronson	$94,800
49	Sean Knox	$94,128
50	Robert Castaneda	$94,008
51	Robin Lingo	$93,721
52	Madhuri Parvathreddy	$93,600
53	David Flathmann	$92,919
54	Matthew Miller	$92,498
55	Richard Goldsmith	$92,483
56	Shawn Hammond	$92,000
57	Patrick Coats	$91,440
58	Ellen Webking	$91,000
59	Erin Dinsmore	$90,393
59	Mayson Pearson	$90,393
59	Christopher Harrigan	$90,393
62	Adam Shaivitz	$90,393
63	Carolyn Fallin	$90,171
64	Biswajit Das	$89,467
65	Stefan Krisch	$88,345
66	Mimi Shelton	$88,185
67	Mehrdad Babai-Pirouz	$88,000
68	Alan Sharf	$87,291
69	Damien Shores	$87,216
70	Paschal Anyaibe	$87,000
71	Robert Rice	$86,369
72	Kevin B. Lowrie	$86,100
73	Drake Kirk	$85,547
74	Christopher Sturm	$85,305
75	John Poole III	$84,245
76	Kevin Butts	$84,116
77	Dean Lamb	$84,000
78	Dawn Burton	$83,640
78	Matthew Clark	$83,640
78	Jennafer Tallant	$83,640
78	Hettie Meisel	$83,640
78	Christian Hertzberg	$83,640
83	Tony Hall	$82,720
84	Angela Masloff	$82,500
84	Tamara Dunn	$82,500
84	Jennifer Imperato	$82,500
87	David George Jr.	$82,429
88	Daniel Price	$82,200
89	Melissa Bennett	$81,780
90	Priscilla Ortuno	$81,600
91	Joseph Greenfield	$80,606
92	Cruz Trinidad De La	$80,000
93	Theenadayalan Ganesan	$80,000
94	Derrick Miller	$79,998
95	Edward Omahony	$78,820
96	Darnell Morgan	$78,000
97	Patricia Ueckert	$77,942
98	Earl Pearson	$77,700
99	Tracy Godfrey	$77,656
100	Jason Gonzalez	$76,743