Hill Country Chronicle

Employees Retirement System paid an average compensation of $96,701 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	David Veal	$395,000
2	Porter Wilson	$331,923
3	Leighton Shantz	$293,144
4	Robert Sessa	$291,461
5	Catherine Terrell	$280,000
6	Cynthia Hamilton	$276,500
7	Anthony Curtiss	$270,947
8	John Streun	$269,370
9	Sierra Perez Pablo De La	$252,522
10	Ricardo Lyra	$241,875
11	Peter Ehret	$238,763
12	Lauren Honza	$232,819
13	Timothy Reynolds	$232,604
14	Andrew Hodson	$227,411
15	Darren Hughes	$223,062
16	Carlos Chujoy	$219,661
17	Elizabeth Martin	$211,621
18	Kelley Hewell	$210,423
19	Diana Kongevick	$205,000
20	Nancy Lippa	$203,385
21	Ryan Cheryl Scott	$203,333
22	Gaye Pharr	$200,290
23	Davis Peacock	$198,662
24	Charles Turner	$195,500
25	John Murphy	$195,216
26	Keith Lyons	$192,471
27	Amanda Burleigh	$190,800
27	Brannon Andrews	$190,800
29	Michael Clements	$188,061
30	William Nail	$185,000
31	Annie Xiao	$183,491
32	Chineque Sterns	$180,350
33	Gabrielle Schreiber	$180,274
34	Jennifer Chambers	$180,000
35	Panayiotis Lambropoulos	$178,736
36	Thomas Rashman	$177,726
37	Robin Hardaway	$176,041
38	Amy Cureton	$173,532
39	Thomas Roberts	$170,358
40	Anthony Chavez	$169,334
41	George Lynch	$164,991
42	Antonio Cardona	$164,819
43	Andrew Okun	$161,813
44	Emily Miller	$160,000
45	Seenfun Mok	$156,256
46	Kenneth McDowell	$153,084
47	David Lacy	$151,445
48	Nicholas Maffeo	$150,409
49	Blaise Duran	$150,002
50	Ryan Wilkinson	$145,869
51	Nancy McCarthy	$145,346
52	Siu Lung David Law	$145,008
53	Teofilo Bacungan Jr.	$144,984
54	Richard Inzunza	$144,272
55	Mark Long	$143,842
56	Michael Shoop	$143,707
57	Ashley Collier	$143,312
58	James Gassman	$142,000
59	Georgina Bouton	$141,609
60	David Wagenseller	$141,000
61	Ian Smith	$140,000
62	Talal Qatato	$138,986
63	Robert Newhall	$138,673
64	Derek Sadowsky	$134,550
65	Joseph Knight	$134,544
66	Christy Davis	$132,865
67	Benjamin Schuman	$132,140
68	June Kim	$131,916
69	Scott Schrier	$131,809
70	Wendy McAdams	$131,750
71	Andrew Tisinger	$129,911
72	Johnny Taylor	$129,221
73	Hau Yuan	$128,415
74	Kathryn Tesar	$127,373
75	Bernie Hajovsky	$127,309
76	Michael Miller	$126,562
77	Adriana Ballard	$123,270
78	Aaron Hatt	$122,435
79	Mark Nelson	$122,394
80	Matthew Riemersma	$120,950
81	Patricia Roano	$120,000
81	John Barnes	$120,000
81	Kyle Fenton	$120,000
81	Francis Barker	$120,000
85	Michael McCrary	$119,891
86	Meagan Larson	$116,927
87	Andrea Dunn	$116,027
88	James Wehmeyer	$112,860
89	Lakshmi Priya Venkatesan	$112,344
90	Kurt Cressotti	$110,784
91	Laurie Kuehner	$110,326
92	Sriyas Pande	$108,000
93	Bernard Stewart	$107,996
94	Jennifer Grissom	$107,067
94	Halverson Carol Holt	$107,067
96	Jose Deleon	$106,296
97	Weiyue Liu	$106,248
98	Nile Stork	$106,035
99	Tressie Landry	$105,984
100	Mary Wardlow	$105,421