Hill Country Chronicle

Texas Juvenile Justice Department paid an average compensation of $51,512 during 2021, this was less 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	Scott Lepor	$276,817
2	Candace Cain	$216,725
3	Shandra Carter	$200,000
4	Emily Anderson	$170,501
5	Forrest Mitchell	$157,788
6	Nathan Jackson Jr.	$155,000
7	Wupperfeld Christian Von	$148,000
8	Alan Michel Jr.	$146,000
9	Daniel Guajardo	$145,000
9	Louis Serrano IV	$145,000
11	Todd Novak	$136,250
12	Eleazar Garcia	$126,105
13	Sean Grove	$123,200
14	Evan Norton	$120,000
15	Luther Taliaferro	$118,495
16	Deborah Whitlock	$117,000
16	Cynthia Brown	$117,000
16	Tamu Steptoe	$117,000
19	Thomas Adamski	$116,710
20	Terri Dollar	$110,876
21	Amy Miller	$109,725
22	Sheree Case	$107,000
23	Christopher Ellison	$106,000
24	William Parks Jr.	$105,833
25	Jennifer Jones	$105,000
26	Jana Stevens	$103,251
27	Robert Dubose	$100,393
28	Robert Fischer	$100,000
28	Jillian Erdberg	$100,000
28	Preston Streufert	$100,000
28	Sebastian Estades	$100,000
32	Jeffery Robertson	$97,522
33	Lisa Broussard	$97,000
34	Lacey Evans	$95,000
34	Michelle Havranek	$95,000
36	Daniel Krall	$95,000
37	Kaci Singer	$94,180
38	Karol Davidson	$94,119
39	Henry Thomas	$93,689
40	Zachary Valdez	$92,500
41	Amanda Zamarron	$92,000
42	Katherine Stokes	$92,000
43	Cheryl Duke	$91,662
44	James Jorgensen	$91,000
45	Stephanie Valdez	$90,846
46	Timothy Hinds	$90,664
47	Darryl Anderson	$90,171
47	Daniel Nix	$90,171
47	Emanuel Ortiz	$90,171
50	Autumn Lord	$90,000
50	Ally Matteson	$90,000
50	Spencer Washington	$90,000
50	Troy McPeak	$90,000
50	Michelle Fiorentini	$90,000
55	San Juanita Gonzalez	$89,726
56	Sara Garcia	$88,193
57	Deborah Harris-Wiggins	$87,747
58	Ronaldo Luna	$87,693
58	Reveriano Hernandez Jr.	$87,693
58	Arturo Guerrero	$87,693
58	Francisco Martinez	$87,693
62	Jonathan Wells	$87,583
63	Randall Waggoner	$87,214
63	Ruth Domel	$87,214
65	Kathryn Hallmark	$87,000
66	Barbara Hollenshead	$86,933
67	Glen Knipstein	$86,912
68	Lory Alexander	$85,934
69	William Klein	$85,755
70	Fernando Leal	$85,200
71	Kathryn Sparks	$85,050
72	Grigori Simonov	$85,000
73	Jack Williams Jr.	$84,883
74	Eric Lejeune	$84,309
74	Helen Spearman	$84,309
74	Craig Taylor	$84,309
74	Nest Stephen Van	$84,309
74	Garry Blasig	$84,309
79	Steven Seeds	$84,214
80	Joe Branham	$84,214
81	Susan Werner	$83,783
82	James Friedman	$83,707
83	Gloria Lee	$83,670
83	Theresa Loyd	$83,670
83	Kimberlee Mooneyham	$83,670
86	John Reid	$83,550
87	Walter Kenion Jr.	$83,461
88	Jan Heath	$83,265
89	Cindy Hewlett	$83,214
90	Morales Diana Peynado	$83,183
91	Emily Shaw	$83,000
91	Christi Goods	$83,000
91	Marcus Recek	$83,000
91	Scott Railsback	$83,000
95	Diane Wren	$82,942
96	Stephen Rehberg	$82,805
97	Randy Robinson	$82,783
98	Sonja Herrington	$82,699
99	Dennis Moseley	$82,524
100	John Johnson	$82,344