NW Houston News

Water Development Board paid an average compensation of $72,485 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	Kathleen Jackson	$201,000
1	Peter Lake	$201,000
1	Brooke Paup	$201,000
4	Jeffrey Walker	$188,285
5	Rebecca Trevino	$179,297
6	Amanda Lavin	$168,431
7	Edna Jackson	$158,363
8	Jessica Zuba	$147,900
9	John Dupnik	$141,658
10	Richard Wade	$139,256
11	Lawrence French	$136,110
12	Matthew Nelson	$125,481
13	Georgia Sanchez	$122,000
14	Christopher Hayden	$121,000
15	Patrick Lopez	$119,881
15	Tara Rejino	$119,881
15	Jennifer White	$119,881
18	Richard Tompkins	$118,036
19	Glenna Bowman	$116,400
20	Leeroy Lopez	$115,290
21	Saul Nuccitelli	$113,022
21	Reem Zoun	$113,022
23	Ladawn Gray	$112,705
24	Nicole Campbell	$112,575
25	David Carter	$105,744
26	Carla Guthrie	$105,000
27	Carleton Wilkes	$103,067
28	Francia Harutunian	$102,189
29	Marie Hermitte	$102,000
30	Alma Molina	$100,484
31	Patricia Avitia	$100,360
32	Merry Klonower	$100,176
33	Alexis Lorick	$100,000
34	Felicia Retiz	$99,317
35	Temple McKinnon	$99,279
36	Angela Gower	$97,854
37	Joe Reynolds	$97,344
38	Paul McElhaney	$96,603
39	Thomas Schultz	$96,000
40	Cynthia Ridgeway	$95,505
41	Mark Wyatt	$94,050
42	Kevin Kluge	$93,408
43	Kaye Schultz	$93,000
44	Annette Mass	$92,767
45	Miguel Pavon	$92,426
46	Sarah Backhouse	$91,960
47	Daniel Palacios	$91,956
48	Nancy Richards	$91,839
49	David Castillo	$90,480
50	Solomon Negusse	$90,208
51	Nequita Carter	$90,183
52	Mireya Loewe	$90,030
53	Marvin Chaney Jr.	$89,624
54	Carmen Cernosek	$89,034
55	Francisco Mata	$89,000
56	John Meyer	$88,962
57	John Moore	$88,876
58	Jerry Icaro	$88,800
59	Adam Breznicky	$88,500
60	Dustin Roberts	$88,275
61	Matthew Erickson	$87,178
62	Bill Billingsley	$87,004
63	Joseph Koen	$87,000
64	Nolan Raphelt	$86,170
65	Mark Wentzel	$85,580
66	Bonnie Cope	$85,490
67	Jason Kleinert	$85,400
68	Ben Munguia	$85,284
69	Matthew Larsen	$85,272
70	Yun-Jeong Cho	$85,224
71	Claude Garrett IV	$84,807
72	Raphael Castro	$83,858
72	Jesse Milonovich	$83,858
74	David Duran	$83,723
75	Gayla Mullins	$83,600
76	Marie-Louise Twagilimana	$83,400
77	Shirley Wade	$83,117
78	Angela Wallace	$82,980
79	Caimee Schoenbaechler	$82,512
80	Bryan McMath	$82,500
81	Kathleen Ligon	$82,452
82	Erika Mancha	$82,200
83	John Haney	$82,000
84	Shelli Coe-MacKie	$81,816
85	James Bronikowski	$81,600
85	Jeffrey Taylor	$81,600
87	Kristie Guerra	$81,552
88	Jianyou Shi	$81,271
89	Jungwoo Lee	$80,500
90	Thomas Entsminger	$80,118
91	Mohammad Irshad	$80,004
92	Enrique Canales	$80,000
92	Manuel Razo	$80,000
94	John Sutton	$78,794
95	Sabrina Anderson	$78,412
96	Taylor Christian	$78,000
96	Nathan Leber	$78,000
98	Kendal Kowal	$77,990
99	Randy Lara	$77,022
100	Nathalie Antenor	$76,800