West Houston News

Texas Juvenile Justice Department paid an average compensation of $48,918 during 2020, this was less than the public employee average of $51,794, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest-paid public employee in Texas was Brian Guthrie, who earned $754,275 as the executive director at the Teacher Retirement System.

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	Scott Lepor	$276,817
2	Candace Cain	$216,725
3	Shandra Carter	$176,580
4	Forrest Mitchell	$157,788
5	Emily Anderson	$155,001
6	Nathan Jackson Jr.	$155,000
7	Wupperfeld Christian Von	$148,000
8	Kellie Warren	$140,000
9	Louis Serrano IV	$137,500
10	Alan Michel Jr.	$136,500
11	Todd Novak	$136,250
12	Eleazar Garcia	$126,105
13	James Elliott	$119,900
14	Luther Taliaferro	$118,495
15	Cynthia Brown	$117,000
16	Thomas Adamski	$116,710
17	Sean Grove	$112,000
18	Terri Dollar	$110,876
19	Amy Miller	$109,725
20	Daniel Guajardo	$109,054
21	Tamu Steptoe	$105,000
21	Jennifer Jones	$105,000
23	David Stender	$104,000
24	Jana Stevens	$103,251
25	Evan Norton	$102,000
26	William Parks Jr.	$100,793
27	Robert Dubose	$100,393
28	Deborah Whitlock	$100,000
29	Danuta Godlewski	$100,000
29	Preston Streufert	$100,000
29	Jillian Erdberg	$100,000
29	Robert Fischer	$100,000
33	Jeffery Robertson	$97,522
34	Christopher Ellison	$95,000
34	Michelle Havranek	$95,000
34	Sheree Case	$95,000
37	Daniel Krall	$95,000
38	Kaci Singer	$94,180
39	Karol Davidson	$94,119
40	Henry Thomas	$93,106
41	Zachary Valdez	$92,500
42	Amanda Zamarron	$92,000
43	Keeley Crowfoot	$92,000
43	Katherine Stokes	$92,000
45	Kathryn Ellerman	$91,000
46	Darryl Anderson	$90,171
46	Emily Shaw	$90,171
48	April Jameson	$90,000
48	Troy McPeak	$90,000
48	Sebastian Estades	$90,000
48	John Arredondo	$90,000
52	Diana Sawyers	$89,661
53	Dennis Smith	$89,096
54	Cheryl Duke	$88,469
55	Michael Rutherford	$88,000
56	Deborah Harris-Wiggins	$87,747
57	Timothy Hinds	$87,471
58	San Juanita Gonzalez	$87,342
59	Kathryn Hallmark	$87,000
60	Glen Knipstein	$86,912
61	Ruth Domel	$86,631
61	Randall Waggoner	$86,631
63	Omar Casas	$86,446
64	Barbara Hollenshead	$86,350
65	Lory Alexander	$85,934
66	William Klein	$85,755
67	David Wallis	$85,419
68	Stephanie Valdez	$85,346
69	Fernando Leal	$85,200
70	Sara Garcia	$84,999
71	Laverne Harrison	$84,677
72	Arturo Guerrero	$84,499
72	Ronaldo Luna	$84,499
72	Francisco Martinez	$84,499
75	Garry Blasig	$84,428
76	Helen Spearman	$84,309
76	Craig Taylor	$84,309
76	Eric Lejeune	$84,309
76	Nest Stephen Van	$84,309
80	Gregory Ezzell	$84,131
81	Susan Werner	$83,783
82	James Friedman	$83,707
83	Jack Williams Jr.	$83,652
84	Steven Seeds	$83,631
85	Imelda Flowers	$83,386
86	Richard Masso	$83,206
87	Scott Railsback	$83,000
87	Marcus Recek	$83,000
87	Christi Goods	$83,000
87	Lisa Broussard	$83,000
91	Larry Pipkin	$82,994
92	Stephen Rehberg	$82,805
93	Sonja Herrington	$82,699
94	Cindy Hewlett	$82,630
94	Charles Howard	$82,630
96	John Johnson	$82,344
97	Juan Gonzalez	$82,000
97	Autumn Lord	$82,000
99	Walter Kenion Jr.	$81,978
100	Cynthia Wood	$81,771