Laredo Times

Governor's Office, Trustee Programs paid an average compensation of $68,226 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	Adriana Cruz	$190,000
2	Aimee Snoddy	$144,900
3	Brendon Anthony	$135,590
4	Bradley Smyth	$133,485
5	Mary York	$125,339
6	Lee Rector	$125,000
7	Terry Zrubek	$122,762
8	Brian Graf	$121,786
9	Andrea Sparks	$117,397
10	Thomas Hambrick	$117,000
11	Nancy Carrales	$115,500
12	Stephanie Whallon	$108,700
13	Angela Martin	$103,740
14	Ronald Lucey	$100,000
15	Timothy Fennell	$98,652
16	Michael Treyger	$93,500
17	Lindsey Ashley	$93,150
18	Patty Franey	$93,000
19	Jason Buckner	$90,000
19	Hillary England	$90,000
19	Andrew Friedrichs	$90,000
22	Alan Schonborn	$89,244
23	Todd Latiolais	$79,704
24	Tad Curtis	$78,895
25	Margie Fernandez-Prew	$78,000
26	Javier Renteria	$77,232
27	Robert Cottle	$76,860
27	Arturo Mendez	$76,860
29	Nathaniel Gieryn	$75,489
30	Stephanie Martinez	$75,000
31	David Bogdanski	$72,300
32	Lindsey Zischkale	$71,682
33	Meghan De Amaral	$71,100
34	Philip Rocha III	$70,980
35	Randi Turner	$70,910
36	Geraldine Spillane	$70,800
37	Maricruz Bergman	$70,200
38	Jerusha Havel	$68,835
39	Susannah Calandruccio	$68,004
40	Tomi Grover	$68,000
40	Deborah Solcher	$68,000
42	Shyrley Temple	$67,708
43	Zhong Chen	$67,463
44	Janet Kasper	$67,332
44	Veronica Lowenberg	$67,332
46	Donald Stout Jr.	$67,272
47	Haileigh Meyers	$67,200
47	Whitney Smith	$67,200
49	Lauren Vay	$66,300
50	Joe Magruder	$65,936
51	Kimberly Hild	$65,004
52	Chandra Eggemeyer	$64,900
53	Steven Gabbart	$63,996
54	Joseph Kenny	$63,875
55	Christina McKinney	$63,600
56	Monica Rodriguez	$63,252
57	Nancy Namis	$63,000
57	William Ogletree	$63,000
57	Lauren Rodriguez	$63,000
57	Alyssa Smith	$63,000
61	Tara Khanna	$62,796
62	Jarvis Brewer	$62,400
63	Lyndsay Ysla	$62,004
64	Sonia Gaillard	$61,792
65	Loan Nancy Van	$60,676
66	Verlee Fort	$60,193
67	Elizabeth Russo	$59,874
68	Priscilla Duran	$58,900
69	Robert Adams	$58,800
70	Deborah Jacaman	$58,500
71	Heather Arrington	$58,399
72	Noah Gilliam	$57,000
73	Cole Nieman	$55,800
74	Chelsea Hartnett	$55,620
75	Joshua Kirk	$55,200
76	Beenish Khan	$55,000
77	Debra Bustos	$54,660
78	Alexandra Taylor	$54,629
79	Kimberly Leblanc	$54,208
80	Stephen Davis	$54,108
81	Sylvia Garcia	$54,000
81	Taylor Hertsenberg	$54,000
81	Chelssie Lopez	$54,000
84	Lindsay Beran	$53,680
85	Tommy Woods	$53,455
86	Jessika Alexander	$53,424
87	Marvin Alcorn	$53,004
87	Erin Cole	$53,004
89	William Jackson	$52,800
89	Eric Schneider	$52,800
91	Michelle Habecker	$52,200
91	Emily Hamel	$52,200
93	Jim Hershey	$52,008
94	Tamara Andrew	$51,600
95	Jiewei Ding	$51,000
96	Leigh Davis	$50,720
97	Jordann Jezek	$50,400
97	Michelle Rueda	$50,400
99	Kathleen Kelly	$50,000
100	Oliver Yang	$49,641