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General Land Office and Veteran's Land Board paid an average compensation of $85,055 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	John Martin	$276,816
2	Mark Havens	$242,498
3	Jeffery Gordon	$222,273
4	Brian Carter	$204,721
5	John Berkely	$200,631
6	David Repp	$193,027
7	Brent McNguyen	$190,495
8	Heather Urbanovsky-Lagrone	$186,684
9	David Green	$183,872
10	Hector Valle	$183,266
11	Cory Wilburn	$181,756
12	Robert Hatter	$173,069
13	Mark Lambert	$171,157
14	Jeffery Kauffmann	$170,247
15	Angela Williams	$168,000
16	Wiley Collier	$166,380
17	Wendy Foster	$166,030
18	Marc Barenblat	$165,355
19	Mitchell Armstrong	$163,800
20	David Land	$161,542
21	Mary Williams	$160,000
22	Alan McWilliams	$158,410
23	Russell May	$158,180
24	Tracey Hall	$157,282
25	Mark McAnally	$156,880
26	Kelly McBride	$156,000
26	Stacey McClure	$156,000
28	Jimmy Martinez	$155,007
29	Jose Montalvo	$155,004
30	Jet Hays	$153,960
31	Anthony Williams	$151,857
31	Melissa Porter	$151,857
33	Mark Neugebauer	$151,523
34	Raul Gonzales	$150,000
35	Christa Lopez	$149,594
36	John Kelley	$149,171
37	Martin Rivera Jr.	$148,007
38	Suzanne Loy	$143,505
39	Shiva Peterson	$143,400
40	Jessica Johnston	$142,052
41	Rebecca Taylor	$142,019
42	Pamela Mathews	$141,754
43	George Bush	$140,938
44	Vonda White	$140,848
45	Stephen Fouchek	$137,400
46	Brittany Eck	$135,830
47	Kathy Johanns	$135,258
48	Elizabeth Ozuna	$134,832
49	Juan Sanchez	$131,000
50	Susan Sergent	$129,125
51	Susan Dorsey	$129,088
52	Kenneth Mills	$128,544
53	Jennifer Molinari	$128,245
54	Kaleb Bennett	$127,899
55	Thomas Ortiz	$127,438
56	Jason Storey	$124,740
57	Stanley Johnson	$124,160
58	Telina Grayson	$123,871
59	Eric Perales	$123,346
60	Sharon Matthews	$123,000
61	Abigael McClean	$122,515
62	Jeffrey Caudle	$121,821
63	Benjamin Bellomy	$121,804
63	Ginger Mills	$121,804
65	Angela Sunley	$121,774
66	Brian Raygon	$121,621
67	Kimilia Mangum	$120,918
68	Pamela Moore	$120,226
69	Brandon Myers	$120,030
70	Joseph May	$119,671
71	Amanda Grantham	$118,800
72	Lashaundra Watley-Seale	$118,514
73	Burton Minton	$117,829
74	Alexandra Gamble	$117,545
75	Amy Nunez	$117,426
76	Adelita Barrientos	$117,397
76	Paul Botello	$117,397
76	Michael Ashton-Moore	$117,397
79	Christopher Reynolds	$117,031
80	Deirdre Stites	$116,834
81	Colleen Jones	$116,525
82	Patricia Ewing	$116,400
83	Frank Zepeda	$115,020
84	Stephen Chang	$115,000
85	Billy McClure Jr.	$114,991
86	Lance White	$113,979
87	Esmeralda Sanchez	$113,702
88	Dora Rivera	$113,610
89	James Harkins	$113,425
90	Molly Keller	$112,461
91	Rolando Torres Jr.	$111,294
92	Melissa Blake	$110,508
93	Garrison McCully	$110,460
94	Dequincy Adamson	$110,244
95	Brent Koza	$110,005
96	Christopher Sanchez	$109,608
97	Holly Faubion	$109,605
98	Christine Taylor	$109,343
99	Scot Friedman	$109,200
100	Alyson Chensasky	$109,025