Amarillo Gazette

Employees Retirement System paid an average compensation of $90,796 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	Charles Tull	$450,000
2	Porter Wilson	$316,117
3	Robert Sessa	$275,228
4	Leighton Shantz	$271,822
5	Paula Jones	$250,000
5	Catherine Terrell	$250,000
7	John Streun	$246,966
8	Sierra Perez Pablo De La	$230,952
9	Ricardo Lyra	$228,404
10	Peter Ehret	$217,057
11	Carlos Chujoy	$209,201
12	Diana Kongevick	$205,000
13	Elizabeth Martin	$204,662
14	Timothy Reynolds	$204,505
15	Nancy Lippa	$203,385
16	Ryan Cheryl Scott	$203,333
17	Darren Hughes	$202,784
18	Andrew Hodson	$199,939
19	Anthony Curtiss	$198,685
20	Brannon Andrews	$190,800
20	Amanda Burleigh	$190,800
22	Kelley Hewell	$185,004
23	Gabrielle Schreiber	$180,274
24	Davis Peacock	$175,341
25	Michael Clements	$172,218
26	Robert Wood Jr.	$170,923
27	Jennifer Chambers	$170,000
28	Charles Turner	$169,291
29	Keith Lyons	$169,220
30	Gaye Pharr	$167,000
31	William Nail	$166,846
32	Annie Xiao	$162,345
33	Anthony Chavez	$161,270
34	Panayiotis Lambropoulos	$159,215
35	Amy Cureton	$157,756
36	Seenfun Mok	$156,256
37	Lauren Honza	$156,180
38	Robin Hardaway	$155,000
39	Cynthia Hamilton	$154,508
40	Kenneth McDowell	$153,084
41	George Lynch	$152,628
42	David Lacy	$151,445
43	Thomas Roberts	$150,360
44	Andrew Okun	$149,688
45	Nicholas Maffeo	$146,028
46	Chineque Sterns	$144,000
47	Leena Chaphekar	$143,312
47	Ashley Collier	$143,312
49	Georgina Bouton	$141,609
50	David Wagenseller	$141,000
51	Nancy McCarthy	$140,567
52	Richard Inzunza	$140,070
53	Ian Smith	$140,000
54	Michael Shoop	$138,847
55	Ryan Wilkinson	$138,843
56	Thomas Williams	$138,161
57	Man Chan	$135,567
58	Joseph Knight	$134,544
59	Robert Newhall	$133,468
60	Mark Long	$133,064
61	Benjamin Schuman	$132,140
62	June Kim	$131,916
63	Derek Sadowsky	$130,000
64	Talal Qatato	$129,996
65	Blaise Duran	$129,001
66	Teofilo Bacungan Jr.	$128,962
67	Keith Yawn	$124,488
68	Srinivasa Singireddy	$124,142
69	Aaron Hatt	$122,435
70	Aaron Ismail	$122,400
71	Mark Nelson	$122,394
72	Andrew Tisinger	$121,980
73	Kathryn Tesar	$121,307
74	Bernie Hajovsky	$121,247
75	Matthew Riemersma	$120,950
76	Hau Yuan	$120,575
77	Francis Barker	$120,000
77	Michael Miller	$120,000
79	Christy Davis	$117,165
80	Wendy McAdams	$115,500
81	Johnny Taylor	$114,941
82	Joy Seth	$111,002
83	Meagan Larson	$110,309
84	Antonio Cardona	$110,197
85	Lakshmi Priya Venkatesan	$109,072
86	John Lovelace	$108,000
86	James Wehmeyer	$108,000
88	Tanice Palacios	$107,235
89	Jose Deleon	$106,296
90	Kathleen West	$106,251
91	Landon Lill	$106,000
92	Mary Wardlow	$105,421
93	Laurie Kuehner	$105,072
94	Richard Padmore	$104,878
95	Mari Queller	$104,222
96	Adriana Ballard	$103,944
97	Jodi Contreras	$103,334
98	Carol Chapnek	$102,752
99	Nile Stork	$101,957
100	Tressie Landry	$100,944