El Paso Standard

Texas Department Of Transportation paid an average compensation of $58,250 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	James Bass	$344,000
2	William Hale	$294,000
3	Marc Williams	$284,000
4	Benjamin Asher	$276,817
5	Brian Ragland	$274,000
6	Richard McMonagle	$258,000
7	Darran Anderson	$245,692
8	Brian Barth	$237,928
9	Quincy Allen	$237,000
10	Jeffrey Graham	$234,000
11	Benito Ybarra	$231,000
12	Mario Jorge	$228,775
13	Anh Selissen	$225,000
14	Claude Lee	$215,800
15	Richard Nelson	$215,000
16	Robert Kaufman	$209,100
17	Harold Ferguson Jr.	$205,000
17	Eliza Paul	$205,000
19	Loyl Bussell	$204,396
20	Mohamed Bur	$202,800
21	Steven Warren	$193,600
22	Carlos Swonke	$191,919
23	Gerard Haddican II	$189,000
24	Peter Smith	$187,000
25	Pedro Alvarez	$186,983
26	David McMillan	$186,018
27	Gina Gallegos	$185,328
28	Stephen Stewart	$184,800
29	Daniel Stacks	$184,644
30	Glenn Green	$184,446
30	Valente Olivarez Jr.	$184,446
32	Lance Simmons	$183,606
33	Tomas Trevino	$182,000
34	Kyle Madsen	$180,000
34	Stanley Swiatek	$180,000
36	Cheryl Flood	$178,797
37	Camille Thomason	$175,905
38	John Speed	$175,032
39	Donald Smith	$175,000
40	Lynn Isaak	$174,840
41	David Salazar	$174,191
42	Elias Rmeili	$172,530
42	Martin Smith	$172,530
44	Kenneth Stewart	$169,387
45	Brian Crawford	$168,768
46	John Ingram Jr.	$168,629
47	Jere Williams	$168,000
48	Paul Reitz	$166,409
49	Noel Paramanantham	$165,510
50	Graham Bettis	$165,000
51	Eric Gleason	$163,878
52	Michael Chacon	$163,800
53	Daniel Harmon	$163,200
54	Craig Otto	$163,141
55	Trent Thomas	$162,000
56	Michael Anderson	$161,790
57	Martin Rodin	$161,750
58	Rebecca Blewett	$160,000
59	Mark Jones	$159,717
60	Jonathan Bean	$158,400
60	Ceason Clemens	$158,400
60	Varuna Singh	$158,400
63	Carl Johnson	$156,600
64	Charon Williams	$156,456
65	Miguel Arellano	$156,000
65	Michael Beaver	$156,000
67	Kristin Alexander	$155,988
68	Leonard Reese	$154,716
69	John Cordary Jr.	$153,360
70	Peter Espy	$152,512
71	Dalton Pratt	$152,019
72	Bobby Anderson	$152,000
73	John Hudspeth	$150,840
74	Robin Cappello	$150,614
75	Mary Griss	$150,000
75	James Koch	$150,000
77	Benjamin Engelhardt	$149,835
78	Linda Sexton	$149,556
79	Rex Costley	$148,800
79	Jesus Valtier	$148,800
81	Jeffrey Bush	$148,320
82	Carol Luschen	$148,000
83	Duane Milligan	$147,600
84	Samuel Salazar	$147,299
85	Michael Bryant	$146,594
86	Elizabeth Hallmark	$145,677
87	Gregory Cedillo	$145,584
88	Ricardo Gonzalez	$145,320
89	Steven Pryor	$145,248
90	Angela Parker	$145,206
91	Martin Horst	$145,200
91	Vernon Webb	$145,200
93	Roger Beall	$144,216
94	Brenan Honey	$144,000
95	Kenneth Wood	$142,924
96	George Villarreal	$142,704
97	Michael Coward	$142,200
98	James Stevenson	$141,960
99	Jessica Butler	$141,895
100	Marisabel Ramthun	$141,825