South San Antonio News

Texas Workforce Commission paid an average compensation of $50,891 during 2021, this was less than the public employee average of $55,188, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Beau Michelle Le, who earned $608,850 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	Robert B. Daniel	$201,000
1	Julian Alvarez	$201,000
1	Aaron Demerson	$201,000
4	Edward Serna	$200,494
5	Randy L. Townsend	$170,000
6	Clayton B. Cole	$155,000
6	Leslie Trobman	$155,000
8	Sarah Reagan Miller	$145,000
8	Susanna Holt Cutrone	$145,000
8	Courtney Arbour	$145,000
8	Cheryl A. Fuller	$145,000
12	Chris J. Nelson	$140,000
13	Heather Hall	$138,588
14	Tom A. McCarty	$137,222
15	Lowell A. Keig	$137,000
16	Charles E. Ross Jr.	$135,000
16	Susan Miller	$135,000
16	Mary H. York	$135,000
19	Paul D. Carmona	$133,955
20	Andre Lasha Lenzy	$130,955
21	Jewell A. Patricio	$130,000
22	Timothy A. Urbanovsky	$128,000
23	Ashley Sagebiel	$127,958
24	Jeffery C. Peden	$125,000
24	John G. Greytok	$125,000
24	Cruz Vera J. Dela	$125,000
27	Pilar Nicole Oria	$125,000
28	Judy A. Sandberg	$124,928
29	Adam Rice Leonard	$124,488
30	Nicholas R. Lealos	$123,000
31	William T. Simmons	$122,004
32	Kimberly Nicole Watson	$121,364
33	Brian Owens	$121,008
34	Christopher Bunton	$120,000
35	Dawn M. Cronin	$119,807
35	Shunta L. Williams	$119,807
35	Kerry Ballast	$119,807
35	Leslie A. Kruse	$119,807
39	Eric N. Holen	$119,050
40	Tammy Martin	$118,667
41	Dan Ngo	$116,160
42	Bryan D. Snoddy	$115,944
43	Maria G. Fuentes	$115,731
44	Jason A. Stalinsky	$115,000
44	Joe L. Leatherwood	$115,000
46	Mary B. Millan	$115,000
47	Beth A. Durham	$114,000
47	Irene Tanguma	$114,000
49	Kimberly R. Emmerich	$113,174
50	Joshua G. Kuntz	$113,000
51	Patricia Espinoza	$112,659
52	Thomas W. Beckley	$112,350
53	Elizabeth A. Hernandez	$112,182
54	Hall Jennifer Concannon	$112,066
55	Jennifer K. Colehower	$112,000
56	Carolyn A. Francis	$111,976
57	Juanita M. Barker	$111,975
58	Bahman Forotanrad	$111,733
59	Kimberly M. Bradford-Brown	$111,090
60	Theresa Ann Bradley	$110,785
61	James Arthur Knauss	$110,706
62	Jerry R. White	$110,472
63	Dipanjan Chakravarty	$110,250
63	Greg Herbert	$110,250
65	Madeleine Colette Pena	$109,199
65	Gavra Jauer Flood	$109,199
67	Daniel Fierro	$108,324
68	Mariana Vega	$107,964
69	Dorothy Fallin	$107,797
70	Angelo Ferrazzano Jr.	$106,027
71	Allison P. Wilson	$106,000
72	Gregory J. Miller	$105,624
73	Jason M. Vaden	$105,294
74	Miller Virginia Stewart	$105,000
74	Swati Dokka	$105,000
74	Robert Ohalloran	$105,000
74	Rajiv Kumar	$105,000
74	Elizabeth Y. Anders	$105,000
74	Elizabeth Noelle Bell	$105,000
74	Pamela C. Hart	$105,000
81	Shahrzad A. Varnado	$104,809
82	Scott A. McCune	$104,782
83	Nelson Reed Kerr III	$104,686
84	Kevin Clifford	$104,622
85	Marisela Otero	$103,522
86	Sharla Lynn Roberts	$103,491
87	Judy K. Ohn	$103,258
88	Paul Hinojosa	$103,200
89	Gregory T. Robinson	$102,859
90	Luis Solis	$102,264
91	Huitang Li	$102,000
91	Bretney R. Patton	$102,000
91	Rebecca K. Regan	$102,000
91	Russell R. Caddell	$102,000
91	Adam A. Alfar	$102,000
96	Corra McCallin Dunigan	$101,748
97	Charles Alexander Harris	$101,456
98	Jaime C. Torres	$101,072
99	Laura Suzanne Rook	$100,996
100	Sara K. Kendall	$100,673