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Office of the Governor paid an average compensation of $86,861 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	Sarah Hicks	$285,000
2	Jordan Hale	$275,600
3	Luis Saenz	$265,000
4	Stephen Munisteri	$251,000
5	James Sullivan	$210,000
6	Angela Colmenero	$195,000
7	Suzanne Johnson	$180,000
8	Peggy Venable	$177,284
9	Gregory Abbott	$153,750
10	William Franks	$140,000
11	Lindsey Aston	$137,489
12	Courtney Hjaltman	$137,280
13	Theresa Boland	$135,278
14	Chelsea Holden	$135,000
15	Tabatha Vasquez	$130,000
16	Heather Fleming	$127,500
17	Gregory Davidson	$124,000
18	Lars Hjaltman	$122,500
19	Katie Taylor	$120,000
19	Jordan Stowers	$120,000
21	Anna Marie Thompson	$119,275
22	Kenneth Moreland	$117,369
23	Cobey Fletcher	$115,218
24	Erin Bennett	$114,400
25	Brenda Foster	$113,000
26	Brendan Berver	$110,011
27	Michael Hull	$110,001
28	Brent Connett	$109,351
29	Stephanie Greger	$106,313
29	Joseph Behnke	$106,313
31	David Shoemaker	$100,992
32	Benjamin Barkley	$100,000
33	Catarina Gonzales	$98,605
34	Hilary Aguirre	$96,900
35	Deborah King	$95,436
36	Neil Kibbe	$94,750
37	Sallie Bentley	$93,600
37	Sydni Mitchell	$93,600
37	Jason Briggs	$93,600
40	Serafina Chandler	$93,096
41	Nancy Tolson	$90,000
41	Yue Zhou	$90,000
41	Philip Peroyea	$90,000
41	Kieran Hillis	$90,000
45	Brent Novosad	$89,052
46	Marios Parpounas	$88,458
47	Jarred Shaffer	$86,000
48	Jeremy Newman	$85,692
49	Leda Bastidas	$85,524
50	Richard Costello	$85,344
51	Marie Dahlmann	$85,000
52	David Brown	$82,200
53	Adrienne Cabrera	$81,000
54	Tegan Vought	$80,000
55	Torres Ramon Carpena	$78,000
56	Cassidy Daniel	$77,529
57	Dennis Herberger Jr.	$77,250
58	Stacy Knause	$77,000
58	Matthew Culbertson	$77,000
60	Munaver Yusufali	$75,259
61	Nelda Sturgeon	$74,304
62	Morgan Stewart	$71,004
63	Irma Heinrich	$70,224
64	Sharon Kavanaugh	$70,000
65	Blake Roach	$69,096
66	Wendy Nelson	$69,000
67	Amanda Adamez	$67,300
68	Lisa Martin	$66,518
69	Fernando Calderon Jr.	$66,448
70	David Bockrath	$65,004
71	Christine Anderson	$65,000
72	Sarah Kirkgard	$63,800
73	Daichan Sykes	$63,000
74	Pamela Wells	$62,400
74	Carmela Davis	$62,400
76	Denny Morgan	$62,000
77	Marta Salinas	$61,656
78	Mary Thomas	$61,050
79	Valerie Lott	$60,500
80	Corey Pohlmeyer	$60,000
81	Helen Martinez	$58,428
82	Norma Magirl	$58,399
83	Sophia Sanchez	$57,612
84	Cindy Coy	$56,021
85	Madeleine Traeger	$56,000
86	Riley WoMacK	$55,000
87	Rebecca Moreno	$55,000
87	Jodie Johnston	$55,000
87	Thomas Demopoulos	$55,000
90	Christian Bowne	$54,000
90	Alexander Aragon	$54,000
90	Sara White	$54,000
90	Xhesika Ceka	$54,000
94	Jill Patterson	$53,527
95	Alejandro Martinez	$53,280
96	Alice Washington	$52,008
97	Amy Bannatyne	$52,000
98	Amy Ruzicka	$50,880
98	Ann Brooks	$50,880
100	Katie Leidel	$50,540