El Paso Standard

Governor's Office, Trustee Programs paid an average compensation of $72,201 during 2021, this was more 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	Adriana Cruz	$197,600
2	Thomas Hambrick	$160,000
3	Aimee Snoddy	$155,000
4	Brendon Anthony	$135,590
5	Lee Rector	$130,000
6	Terry Zrubek	$127,762
7	Brian Graf	$126,657
8	Lawrence McManus III	$120,771
9	Hillary England	$118,000
10	John Baker	$114,400
11	Kevin Masters	$112,504
12	Stephanie Whallon	$111,961
13	Timothy Fennell	$110,000
14	Angela Martin	$109,853
15	Ronald Lucey	$104,000
16	Andrew Friedrichs	$100,000
17	Patty Franey	$96,504
18	Robert Cottle	$95,277
19	Jason Buckner	$95,000
20	Lindsey Ashley	$93,150
21	James Minze	$92,500
22	Gene Cervenka	$90,000
22	Nathaniel Gieryn	$90,000
22	Stephanie Martinez	$90,000
22	Alyssa Smith	$90,000
22	Todd Latiolais	$90,000
27	Javier Renteria	$81,232
28	Joshua Kirk	$81,000
29	Lyndsay Ysla	$80,000
30	Stephen Davis	$76,464
31	David Bogdanski	$75,500
32	Shyrley Temple	$75,048
32	Lauren Vay	$75,048
34	Susannah Calandruccio	$75,000
35	Randi Turner	$73,544
36	Kimberly Hild	$72,012
37	Brice Corkill	$72,000
38	Tomi Grover	$71,500
38	Janet Kasper	$71,500
38	Deborah Solcher	$71,500
41	Donald Stout Jr.	$71,472
42	Haileigh Meyers	$71,280
43	Charles Sisemseghan	$71,000
44	Jerusha Havel	$70,900
45	Zhong Chen	$70,836
46	Jarvis Brewer	$70,800
47	Christina McKinney	$70,000
48	William Ogletree	$70,000
48	Daniel Poane	$70,000
48	Christian Benavides	$70,000
51	Joe Magruder	$69,892
52	Veronica Lowenberg	$69,332
53	Maria Villarreal	$68,634
54	Chandra Eggemeyer	$67,400
55	Steven Gabbart	$67,151
56	Stephanie Mazurkiewicz	$67,000
57	Haley Friedman	$66,456
58	Erin Cole	$66,000
59	Nancy Namis	$65,600
60	Tara Khanna	$64,994
61	Loan Nancy Van	$63,300
62	Chelssie Lopez	$63,000
62	Elizabeth Russo	$63,000
62	Katherine Stanford	$63,000
62	William Jackson	$63,000
66	Sonia Gaillard	$61,792
67	Heather Arrington	$60,385
68	Priscilla Duran	$60,373
69	Verlee Fort	$60,193
70	Tamara Andrew	$59,583
71	Robert Adams	$58,800
72	Deborah Jacaman	$58,500
73	Eric Schneider	$58,260
74	Kimberly Leblanc	$58,008
75	Debra Bustos	$57,940
76	Tommy Woods	$57,090
77	Sylvia Garcia	$57,000
78	Alexandra Taylor	$56,814
79	Marvin Alcorn	$56,004
79	Madison Ballard	$56,004
81	Michelle Habecker	$56,000
82	Melita Hudson	$55,004
83	Madeline De Amaral	$55,000
83	Dorothy Caston	$55,000
85	Allisa Nichols	$54,708
86	Karina Trevino	$54,108
87	Karen Crow	$54,000
87	Caroline Butler	$54,000
87	Cody Phelps	$54,000
90	Lindsay Beran	$53,680
91	Cynthia Hurtado	$53,040
92	Oliver Yang	$53,016
93	Adriana Lopez	$53,004
93	Madison Foley	$53,004
95	Jim Hershey	$53,000
96	Thomas Butterfield	$52,800
97	Leigh Davis	$52,470
98	Kathleen Kelly	$51,750
99	Jordann Jezek	$51,400
100	Abigayle Zamora	$51,200