Lubbock Times

Public Utility Commission of Texas paid an average compensation of $76,278 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	Deann Walker	$201,000
1	Shelly Botkin	$201,000
1	Arthur D\'Andrea	$201,000
4	Thomas Gleeson	$200,000
5	Stephen Journeay	$190,000
6	Constance Corona	$185,000
7	Andrew Barlow	$150,000
8	Rachelle Robles	$140,000
8	Keith Rogas	$140,000
8	Darryl Tietjen	$140,000
8	Rebecca Zerwas	$140,000
12	Philip English	$135,000
12	Davida Dwyer	$135,000
14	Benter Tammy Holguin	$125,000
14	Richard Burch	$125,000
16	Mark Hovenkamp	$125,000
16	Shelah Cisneros	$125,000
18	Hunter Burkhalter	$120,000
19	Charles Bondurant	$115,000
20	Anna Givens	$112,000
20	William Abbott	$112,000
22	Angela Wolf	$110,000
22	Heath Armstrong	$110,000
24	Wyman Constance McDaniel	$105,000
25	Eleanor D\'Ambrosio	$105,000
26	Kasey Feldman-Thomason	$100,000
26	Michael Hoke	$100,000
26	Smith Gina Misquez	$100,000
26	Paytyn Woltersdorf	$100,000
30	Therese Harris	$97,400
31	Heidi Graham	$95,000
31	Rashmin Asher	$95,000
33	Jay Stone	$93,600
34	Parrish Pratt	$90,000
34	David Smeltzer	$90,000
34	Celia Eaves	$90,000
37	Kristen Mendoza	$88,000
37	Bruce Westmoreland	$88,000
39	John Kelly	$86,400
40	Adrian Hazard	$85,750
41	Jesus Morales Jr.	$85,200
42	Mark Filarowicz	$85,000
42	Jenna King	$85,000
44	Clifton Crouch	$84,600
45	Jason Goldsworth	$84,000
46	Lisa Fuentes	$80,100
47	Katie Moore	$80,004
47	Gregory Siemankowski	$80,004
49	Rastogi Rama Singh	$80,000
49	Isaac Ta	$80,000
49	Rustin Tawater	$80,000
49	Alaina Zermeno	$80,000
49	Kristin Abbott	$80,000
49	Harika Basaran	$80,000
55	Judith King	$78,192
56	David Bautista	$77,400
57	Ruth Stark	$76,956
58	Michael Sanford	$76,000
59	James Kelsaw Jr.	$75,600
60	Stephen Mendoza	$75,000
60	Emily Sears	$75,000
62	Diane Hopingardner	$74,750
63	John Poole	$74,400
64	Jorge Ordonez	$74,000
65	Justin Adkins	$74,000
66	Werner Roth	$73,500
67	Alicia Maloy	$72,400
67	Reginald Tuvilla	$72,400
69	Leila Guerrero	$72,000
70	Patricia Garcia	$71,600
71	Richard Saldana	$70,585
72	John Harrison	$70,000
72	Garcia Alfonso Hernandez	$70,000
72	David Hoard	$70,000
72	Creighton McMurray	$70,000
72	Kavitha Anandan	$70,000
77	Tracy Montes	$69,400
78	Fred Goodwin	$68,641
79	Cynthia Guerrero	$68,200
80	Fred Bednarski III	$68,000
81	Jolie Mathis	$67,593
82	Ramya Ramaswamy	$67,400
83	Jionne Harnsberry	$67,000
84	Laurie Wharton	$66,000
85	Harold Kohl	$65,000
85	Jeffrey Wirth	$65,000
87	Nabaraj Pokharel	$65,000
88	Canto Adrian Narvaez	$64,000
88	Mark Cavazos	$64,000
90	Debbie Reyes	$63,617
91	Merritt Lander	$63,000
91	Jinks Kourtnee McInturf	$63,000
91	Alexander Scheifler	$63,000
94	Gary Horton Jr.	$62,250
95	Justin M. Ackley	$62,000
96	Pablo Almaraz	$60,000
97	Lorenzo Garcia	$60,000
97	Connor Kilgallen	$60,000
97	Tasha Lopez	$60,000
97	Carol Maxwell	$60,000