Tyler Reporter

Governor's Office, Trustee Programs paid an average compensation of $67,759 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	Adriana Cruz	$190,000
2	Aimee Snoddy	$144,900
3	Brendon Anthony	$135,590
4	Thomas Hambrick	$135,000
5	Bradley Smyth	$133,485
6	Lee Rector	$125,000
7	Terry Zrubek	$122,762
8	Brian Graf	$121,786
9	Andrea Sparks	$117,397
10	Lawrence McManus III	$115,020
11	Kevin Masters	$110,004
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	Robert Cottle	$90,000
19	Hillary England	$90,000
19	Andrew Friedrichs	$90,000
19	James Minze	$90,000
19	Jason Buckner	$90,000
24	Alan Schonborn	$89,244
25	Todd Latiolais	$79,704
26	Tad Curtis	$78,895
27	Margie Fernandez-Prew	$78,000
28	Javier Renteria	$77,232
29	Nathaniel Gieryn	$75,489
30	Stephanie Martinez	$75,000
31	David Bogdanski	$72,300
32	Lindsey Zischkale	$71,682
33	Philip Rocha III	$70,980
34	Randi Turner	$70,910
35	Geraldine Spillane	$70,800
36	Maricruz Bergman	$70,200
37	Jerusha Havel	$68,835
38	Susannah Calandruccio	$68,004
39	Tomi Grover	$68,000
39	Deborah Solcher	$68,000
39	Christian Benavides	$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
48	Lauren Vay	$66,300
49	Maria Villarreal	$66,000
50	Joe Magruder	$65,936
51	Kimberly Hild	$65,004
51	Arnold Jacob	$65,004
51	Ashley Lunde	$65,004
54	Chandra Eggemeyer	$64,900
55	Steven Gabbart	$63,996
56	Christina McKinney	$63,600
57	Monica Rodriguez	$63,252
58	William Jackson	$63,000
58	Nancy Namis	$63,000
58	William Ogletree	$63,000
58	Alyssa Smith	$63,000
62	Tara Khanna	$62,796
63	Jarvis Brewer	$62,400
64	Lyndsay Ysla	$62,004
65	Sonia Gaillard	$61,792
66	Loan Nancy Van	$60,676
67	Verlee Fort	$60,193
68	Katherine Stanford	$60,000
69	Elizabeth Russo	$59,874
70	Priscilla Duran	$58,900
71	Robert Adams	$58,800
72	Deborah Jacaman	$58,500
73	Heather Arrington	$58,399
74	Samuel Schornack	$58,000
75	Chelsea Hartnett	$57,624
76	Joshua Kirk	$55,200
77	Beenish Khan	$55,000
78	Debra Bustos	$54,660
79	Alexandra Taylor	$54,629
80	Kimberly Leblanc	$54,208
81	Stephen Davis	$54,108
82	Sylvia Garcia	$54,000
82	Taylor Hertsenberg	$54,000
82	Chelssie Lopez	$54,000
85	Lindsay Beran	$53,680
86	Tommy Woods	$53,455
87	Jessika Alexander	$53,424
88	Dorothy Caston	$53,004
88	Erin Cole	$53,004
88	Melita Hudson	$53,004
88	Marvin Alcorn	$53,004
88	Madison Ballard	$53,004
93	Eric Schneider	$52,800
94	Michelle Habecker	$52,200
95	Jim Hershey	$52,008
96	Cristina Madrid	$51,600
96	Tamara Andrew	$51,600
98	Jiewei Ding	$51,000
99	Leigh Davis	$50,720
100	Jordann Jezek	$50,400