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Legislative Budget Board paid an average compensation of $96,851 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	Andrew Blifford	$255,299
2	Jerry McGinty II	$220,000
3	Wayne Pulver	$199,500
3	Nora Velasco-Herrera	$199,500
5	Stewart Shallow	$185,000
5	Scott Dudley	$185,000
5	Matthew Medford	$185,000
8	Kevin Kavanaugh	$161,000
9	Julie Lindsey	$157,000
10	Dmitry Rozinsky	$152,000
11	Aaron Henricksen	$145,000
11	Mark Wiles	$145,000
13	Malika Te	$141,000
14	Michael Vanderburg	$138,000
15	Melitta Berger	$137,000
16	Bryan Ricke	$135,000
17	Alma White	$132,000
18	Thomas Galvan	$130,810
19	Jordan Smith	$130,000
20	Eduardo Rodriguez	$129,000
21	Marialaura Molina	$127,000
21	Catherine Fallon-Brown	$127,000
23	Dominic Craig	$126,690
24	Greg Owens	$125,900
25	Lena Conklin	$125,000
26	Benjamin Cross	$122,500
27	John Newton	$121,793
28	Samuel Xia	$120,500
29	Molly Czepiel	$120,000
29	Sarah Glinsmann	$120,000
31	Joseph Shepherd	$117,500
31	Richard Corbell	$117,500
31	Christopher Mattsson	$117,500
34	Dushyanth Reddivari	$115,000
34	Cameron Cocke	$115,000
36	Marlene Taplin	$113,300
37	Michelle Taylor	$107,610
38	George Purcell	$106,018
39	John Posey	$104,559
40	Theodore Holladay	$99,700
41	George Dziuk III	$99,324
42	Avery Saxe	$96,600
43	Briana Novian	$95,000
44	Ronnie Porfirio	$94,594
45	Charles Riggs	$93,000
45	Scott Lewis	$93,000
47	James Kisamore	$90,000
47	Michael Lasater	$90,000
49	Kofi Effah	$87,500
50	Rachel Stegall	$87,000
51	Pamela Bolton	$85,920
52	Bryan Hadley	$85,881
53	Allen Greathouse	$85,050
54	John Montgomery	$85,000
55	Louellen Lowe	$84,660
56	Nicole Delaney	$84,168
57	Benjamin Davis	$83,550
58	Bradley White	$81,500
59	Gina Sweetin	$80,000
59	Claire Stieg	$80,000
61	Jeffrey Ebberts	$79,500
62	Andrea Nikic	$78,900
63	Christopher Pace	$78,040
64	Lann Bolding	$78,000
65	Kelsey Vela	$77,080
66	Darren Albrecht	$76,380
67	Amit Patel	$76,000
68	Rebecca Stevenson	$75,000
69	Colin Brock	$74,000
70	Nicole Ascano	$73,000
71	Anne Fine	$71,100
72	Mercedes Coleman	$71,000
72	Ramin Rohani	$71,000
74	Harrison Gregg	$70,680
75	Andrew Overmyer	$70,000
76	Emily Navarrette	$69,500
77	Elizabeth O'Connor	$64,800
78	David Gillian	$64,513
79	Scott Zaskoda	$62,700
80	Brandon Smith	$62,640
81	Servet Oksuz	$62,500
82	Daniel Knapp	$61,560
83	Emily Joslin	$61,000
84	Jessica Pena	$60,000
84	Kal Smith	$60,000
84	Eric Schroeder	$60,000
87	Vakeetia Bunton	$58,900
88	Benilde Rocha-Cartwright	$58,400
89	Jordan Parr	$58,000
89	Samantha Durand	$58,000
91	Andrew Lionberger	$57,804
92	Samantha Martinez	$57,180
93	Abraham Alvarenga	$57,000
94	Kniesha Niemann	$56,500
95	Michael Cooper	$56,100
96	David Petit	$56,000
97	Joseph Valadez	$55,300
98	Adam Brannon	$55,000
99	Bonnie Schinzing	$54,000
100	Efraim Reiderman	$53,000