Amarillo Gazette

Consumer Credit Commission paid an average compensation of $62,331 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	Leslie Pettijohn	$196,000
2	Michael Rigby	$150,054
3	Charles Lewis	$122,230
4	William Purce	$116,191
5	Matthew Nance	$106,000
6	Mirand Diamond	$100,412
7	William Roche	$90,188
8	Stephen Cantini	$86,882
9	Gregory Williams	$86,874
10	Karl Hubenthal	$77,535
11	Christine Graham	$77,405
12	Eric Fancher	$75,175
13	Alfredo Hernandez	$72,179
14	Scott Fried	$71,049
15	Christopher Buentello	$69,032
16	Jason Schaefer	$68,807
17	Brandon Saunders	$68,118
18	Kathy Kline	$67,886
19	Veronica Gonzalez	$66,122
20	Brian Arbogast	$65,816
21	Carlos Garcia	$65,804
22	Phoung Ung	$65,516
23	Candace Vargas	$64,956
24	Audrey Spalding	$64,000
25	Adrian Perez	$63,537
26	Gunther De Valle	$63,341
27	Artie Riley III	$62,370
28	Jeffrey Diggs	$62,134
29	Adrian Hernandez	$61,429
30	Louis Cruz	$61,142
31	Myrna Lopez	$61,130
32	Lindsey Schmidt	$60,893
33	Justin Dennis	$60,874
34	Nancy Ebert	$60,719
35	Ginger Harmon	$60,000
36	Richard Aguilar	$58,856
37	Thomas White	$57,504
38	Hunter Owen	$55,174
38	Nayelli Sandoval	$55,174
40	Erik Morales	$55,046
41	Ricardo Lugo	$54,610
42	James Brooks	$54,067
43	Andrea Johnson	$53,992
44	Casey Cox	$52,547
45	Terry Ballard	$52,419
46	Douglas Mejia	$52,041
46	Tom Traweek	$52,041
48	Ashriiah Acii	$51,512
49	Jessica Carpenter	$50,526
49	Jonathan Carter	$50,526
49	Oscar Gonzales	$50,526
49	James Robinson	$50,526
49	Luz Sawin	$50,526
49	Harrison Verrett	$50,526
49	Briget Williams	$50,526
56	Christopher Churchill	$50,400
57	Debrah Watts	$49,623
58	Joel Mendoza	$48,000
59	Chay Baker	$47,368
60	Lorene Tooley	$46,825
61	Jorge Alvarez	$45,112
62	Taj Tasawor	$45,000
63	Nickolas Fisher	$44,100
64	Kanesha Daniels	$42,008
65	Victor Serrato Jr.	$41,627
66	Phuong Jenkins	$41,041
67	Kristin Catano	$40,862
68	Joelle Lowe	$39,000
69	Monique Moise	$38,189
70	Ariel Hardman	$37,800
71	Nicholas Meyers	$37,200
72	Carrie Trigg	$31,707
73	Donalyn Paglibuan	$29,028
74	Cynthia Martinez	$27,122