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Water Development Board paid an average compensation of $73,734 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	Brooke Paup	$201,000
1	Kathleen Jackson	$201,000
3	Jeffrey Walker	$199,582
4	Rebecca Trevino	$195,000
5	Amanda Lavin	$176,852
6	Edna Jackson	$158,363
7	Reginald Harden	$154,500
8	Jessica Pena	$151,598
9	Richard Wade	$146,219
10	John Dupnik	$145,908
11	Georgia Sanchez	$138,348
12	Matthew Nelson	$136,771
13	Lawrence French	$136,110
14	Sergio Rey	$135,000
15	Richard Tompkins	$132,000
16	Patrick Lopez	$125,096
16	Jennifer White	$125,096
18	Reem Zoun	$120,934
19	Saul Nuccitelli	$120,838
20	Leeroy Lopez	$115,290
21	Alma Molina	$115,000
22	Patricia Avitia	$114,411
23	Marie Hermitte	$114,011
24	Srikanth Koka	$112,700
25	Nicole Campbell	$112,575
26	Carla Guthrie	$111,090
27	Temple McKinnon	$109,207
28	Carleton Wilkes	$108,220
29	Angela Gower	$108,000
30	Alexis Lorick	$105,617
31	Daniel Palacios	$105,312
32	Ashokkumar Durairajan	$104,769
33	Joe Reynolds	$103,135
34	Felicia Retiz	$103,000
35	Kaye Schultz	$102,701
36	Francia Harutunian	$102,189
37	Dustin Roberts	$101,472
38	Thomas Schultz	$98,880
39	Cameron Turner	$97,800
40	Erika Mancha	$96,996
41	Annette Mass	$95,167
42	Nathalie Antenor	$95,000
43	Mark Wyatt	$94,050
44	Lauren Munguia	$94,000
45	Brian Cunningham	$92,700
46	Marie-Louise Twagilimana	$92,574
47	Jerry Icaro	$92,352
48	Marvin Cole-Chaney	$92,312
49	Sarah Backhouse	$91,960
50	Nancy Richards	$91,839
51	David Castillo	$90,480
52	Nequita Carter	$90,183
53	Mireya Loewe	$90,030
54	Bryan McMath	$89,500
55	Gayla Mullins	$89,452
56	Jenna Rao	$89,000
56	Francisco Mata	$89,000
58	David Duran	$88,815
59	Yang Cao	$87,949
60	Laura Sepulveda	$87,550
61	Matthew Erickson	$87,178
62	Yun-Jeong Cho	$87,004
63	Joseph Koen	$87,000
64	Jesse Milonovich	$86,709
65	Nolan Raphelt	$86,170
66	Bonnie Cope	$85,905
67	Jeffrey Taylor	$85,680
67	Thomas Barnett	$85,680
69	Kristie Guerra	$85,631
70	Scott Daywood	$85,608
71	Mark Wentzel	$85,580
72	Caimee Schoenbaechler	$85,400
73	Matthew Larsen	$85,272
74	Christopher Repka	$85,000
75	Dennis Kyhos	$85,000
76	James Bronikowski	$84,864
77	Kathleen Ligon	$84,719
78	Kendal Kowal	$84,672
79	Nirad Sahu	$84,600
80	John Sutton	$84,152
81	Hamsa Palepu	$84,000
81	Miguel Pavon	$84,000
83	Amin Kiaghadi	$83,298
84	Shirley Wade	$83,117
85	Enrique Canales	$82,800
86	Jennifer Jackson	$82,452
87	Mohammad Irshad	$82,404
88	Richard Roberts	$82,401
89	Sabrina Anderson	$82,333
90	Loren Sammon	$82,255
91	Nathan Leber	$82,233
92	Jungwoo Lee	$82,110
93	Tyrone Alcorn	$82,000
93	Connie Townsend	$82,000
95	Taylor Christian	$81,900
96	Jianyou Shi	$81,271
97	Wei Chieh Lin	$80,169
98	Vitalis Ozorji	$80,100
99	Dennis Newman	$80,004
99	Juan Moran-Lopez	$80,004