Amarillo Gazette

Employees Retirement System paid an average compensation of $92,405 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	Charles Tull	$450,000
2	Porter Wilson	$316,117
3	Leighton Shantz	$276,817
4	Robert Sessa	$275,228
5	Catherine Terrell	$265,000
6	John Streun	$254,367
7	Paula Jones	$250,000
8	Sierra Perez Pablo De La	$238,458
9	Ricardo Lyra	$228,404
10	Carlos Chujoy	$219,661
11	Peter Ehret	$217,057
12	Elizabeth Martin	$211,621
13	Timothy Reynolds	$211,458
14	Andrew Hodson	$206,737
15	Diana Kongevick	$205,000
16	Anthony Curtiss	$203,443
17	Cynthia Hamilton	$203,385
17	Nancy Lippa	$203,385
19	Ryan Cheryl Scott	$203,333
20	Darren Hughes	$202,784
21	Kelley Hewell	$191,294
22	Brannon Andrews	$190,800
22	Amanda Burleigh	$190,800
24	Davis Peacock	$180,601
25	Gabrielle Schreiber	$180,274
26	John Murphy	$177,470
27	Keith Lyons	$174,973
28	Michael Clements	$172,218
29	Robert Wood Jr.	$170,923
30	Jennifer Chambers	$170,000
31	Charles Turner	$169,291
32	Gaye Pharr	$167,000
33	William Nail	$166,846
34	Panayiotis Lambropoulos	$162,487
35	Annie Xiao	$162,345
36	Lauren Honza	$161,646
37	Anthony Chavez	$161,270
38	Amy Cureton	$157,756
39	Seenfun Mok	$156,256
39	Thomas Rashman	$156,256
41	Robin Hardaway	$155,000
42	Thomas Roberts	$154,871
43	Kenneth McDowell	$153,084
44	George Lynch	$152,628
45	David Lacy	$151,445
46	Nicholas Maffeo	$150,409
47	Blaise Duran	$150,002
48	Andrew Okun	$149,688
49	Siu Lung David Law	$145,008
50	Richard Inzunza	$144,272
51	Chineque Sterns	$144,000
52	Michael Shoop	$143,707
53	Leena Chaphekar	$143,312
53	Ashley Collier	$143,312
55	James Gassman	$142,000
56	Ryan Wilkinson	$141,620
57	Georgina Bouton	$141,609
58	David Wagenseller	$141,000
59	Nancy McCarthy	$140,567
60	Ian Smith	$140,000
61	Man Chan	$139,634
62	Thomas Williams	$138,161
63	Derek Sadowsky	$134,550
64	Joseph Knight	$134,544
65	Talal Qatato	$134,416
66	Teofilo Bacungan Jr.	$134,121
67	Robert Newhall	$133,468
68	Mark Long	$133,064
69	Benjamin Schuman	$132,140
70	June Kim	$131,916
71	Hau Yuan	$128,415
72	Andrew Tisinger	$126,127
73	Aaron Ismail	$125,460
74	Emily Miller	$125,000
75	Keith Yawn	$124,488
76	Srinivasa Singireddy	$124,142
77	Christy Davis	$123,023
78	Scott Schrier	$123,000
79	Aaron Hatt	$122,435
80	Michael Miller	$122,400
81	Mark Nelson	$122,394
82	Kathryn Tesar	$121,307
83	Bernie Hajovsky	$121,247
84	Matthew Riemersma	$120,950
85	Patricia Roano	$120,000
85	Francis Barker	$120,000
85	John Barnes	$120,000
85	Kyle Fenton	$120,000
89	Johnny Taylor	$119,538
90	Wendy McAdams	$115,500
91	Antonio Cardona	$113,785
92	Tanice Palacios	$112,597
93	Meagan Larson	$110,309
94	Lakshmi Priya Venkatesan	$109,072
95	John Lovelace	$108,000
95	Sriyas Pande	$108,000
95	James Wehmeyer	$108,000
98	Adriana Ballard	$107,544
99	Jose Deleon	$106,296
100	Kathleen West	$106,251