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Office Of The Governor paid an average compensation of $83,649 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	Jordan Hale	$265,000
1	Sarah Hicks	$265,000
1	Luis Saenz	$265,000
4	Jeffrey Oldham	$227,700
5	John Wittman	$189,069
6	Angela Colmenero	$178,538
6	James Sullivan	$178,538
8	Peggy Venable	$170,465
9	Suzanne Johnson	$155,000
10	Gregory Abbott	$153,750
11	William Franks	$129,842
12	Jacqueline Merrick	$129,000
13	Lindsey Aston	$127,305
14	Chelsea Holden	$125,007
15	Kathleen Blifford	$125,000
16	Theresa Boland	$122,980
17	Jeffrey Smith	$120,286
18	Courtney Hjaltman	$120,000
19	Gregory Davidson	$119,000
20	Anna Marie Thompson	$114,688
21	Heather Fleming	$113,304
22	Katie Taylor	$113,124
23	Cobey Fletcher	$110,256
24	Erin Bennett	$110,000
25	Kenneth Moreland	$108,675
26	Jordan Rodriguez	$107,625
27	Brent Connett	$105,351
28	Brenda Foster	$105,000
29	Doris Keith	$102,719
30	Brendan Berver	$102,336
31	Ann Du	$101,249
32	Christopher Warren	$98,792
33	David Shoemaker	$97,108
34	Catarina Gonzales	$94,813
35	Charles Miller	$94,812
36	Joseph Behnke	$94,500
37	Deborah King	$91,765
38	Mary Lynn Pruneda	$90,750
39	Serafina Chandler	$90,384
40	Anna Lee	$90,312
41	Michael Hull	$90,012
42	Lynn Gunn	$85,696
43	Brent Novosad	$84,479
44	Jeremy Newman	$83,196
45	Christopher Sanchez	$82,606
46	Allegra Hill	$82,400
47	Richard Costello	$81,344
48	Frank Reynolds	$80,475
49	Elizabeth Farley	$80,150
49	Christopher Smith	$80,150
51	Patrick Gannon	$79,008
52	Lucinda Villarreal	$78,953
53	Jeffrey Lofley	$78,192
54	Paige Cooper	$78,093
55	David Brown	$76,200
56	Marcus Clark	$76,000
57	Munaver Yusufali	$75,259
58	Cassidy Daniel	$75,029
59	Roberto Elizondo	$75,000
59	Dennis Herberger Jr.	$75,000
59	Johanna Meade	$75,000
59	Angela Ossar	$75,000
63	Adrienne Cabrera	$72,100
64	Jordan Stowers	$72,000
65	Jordan Ballard	$70,008
66	Nelda Sturgeon	$69,444
67	Torres Ramon Carpena	$67,212
68	Tegan Vought	$67,000
69	Blake Roach	$66,696
70	Irma Heinrich	$66,000
71	Wendy Nelson	$65,712
72	Leda Bastidas	$65,652
73	Morgan Stewart	$65,004
74	Nancy Tolson	$65,000
75	Lisa Martin	$63,960
76	Ana Vargas	$63,894
77	Fernando Calderon Jr.	$62,448
78	Bernadette Riles	$62,400
79	Spencer Cummings	$61,000
80	Ainslie Ellis	$60,000
80	Alexandria Vandiver	$60,000
80	Madelaine Wolfe	$60,000
83	Marta Salinas	$59,000
84	Sharon Kavanaugh	$58,500
85	Sarah Kirkgard	$58,000
86	Angela Mitchell	$57,312
87	Pamela Wells	$56,808
88	Norma Magirl	$56,199
89	Sophia Sanchez	$55,608
90	Suzanna Seargeant	$55,200
91	Carmela Davis	$55,104
92	Samuel Schornack	$55,008
93	Valerie Lott	$55,000
94	Cindy Coy	$53,867
95	Marie Dahlmann	$53,841
96	Ronnie Young	$52,884
97	Denny Morgan	$52,500
98	Daichan Sykes	$52,248
99	Jill Patterson	$51,147
100	Cynthia Hurtado	$50,129