Ft Worth Times

Texas Department Of Insurance paid an average compensation of $62,982 during 2019, this was more than the public employee average of $51,268, according to data compiled by The Texas Tribune.

The highest paid public employee in Texas was James Willson, who earned $553,500 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	Kent Sullivan	$217,139
2	James Slape	$198,000
3	Nancy Clark	$180,000
4	J'Ne Byckovski	$176,947
5	Richard Lunsford	$175,000
6	Lucien Bellsnyder	$174,996
6	Leah Gillum	$174,996
6	Stephanie Goodman	$174,996
6	Orlando Hernandez	$174,996
6	John Herrick	$174,996
6	James Person	$174,996
6	Jamie Walker	$174,996
6	Mark Worman	$174,996
14	Michael Boerner	$170,000
15	Cassandra Brown	$169,111
16	Brian Ryder	$153,822
17	Michael Nored	$152,000
18	Miriam Fisk	$150,000
18	Rachel Hemphill	$150,000
18	Aaron Hodges	$150,000
21	Nicholas Canaday III	$148,000
21	Joseph McElrath	$148,000
21	Daniel Paschal	$148,000
21	Knight Debra Summerlin	$148,000
21	Matthew Zurek	$148,000
26	Ignatius Wheeler	$146,629
27	Amy Lee	$144,562
28	Raja Malkani	$144,000
29	Elizabeth Elliott	$141,600
30	Kyson Johnson	$140,000
31	Anthony Infantini	$139,500
32	Amy Lugo	$139,184
33	Kerry Sullivan	$135,160
34	Lii-Jin Lo	$134,406
35	Theol Jackman II	$131,572
36	Wagley Marisa Lopez	$130,296
37	Tammy Campion	$130,010
38	Donna Crosby	$130,008
39	Allison Eberhart	$130,000
40	Nicole Elliott	$129,039
41	Ernest McCloud	$128,360
42	Amy Garcia	$126,000
42	Roy Markham	$126,000
44	Arby Gonzales	$125,000
44	Yukan Jiang	$125,000
44	Amanda Meesey	$125,000
44	Chonlada Pongpipattanachai	$125,000
48	John Alexander	$124,964
49	Eric Reiner	$124,734
50	Nicole Thornbro	$124,000
51	Marianne Baker	$121,186
52	Christopher Davis	$121,000
52	Jason Horn	$121,000
54	Douglas Danzeiser	$120,175
55	Christina McCoy	$120,088
56	Melissa Burkhart	$120,000
56	Brian Chandler	$120,000
56	Curtis Polk Jr.	$120,000
59	Cynthia Bluntzer	$119,909
60	Cynthia Olivier	$119,700
61	Mario Chavez Jr.	$118,800
62	Andy Liao	$117,610
63	Shawn Frederick	$117,128
64	Melissa Lujan	$117,000
65	Russell Harper	$116,744
66	Maria Landrum	$116,079
67	Matthew Kennedy	$115,641
68	Debra Diaz-Lara	$115,008
69	Jennifer Hopens	$115,000
69	Margaret Jonon	$115,000
71	Allen Craddock	$114,195
72	Matthew Tarpley	$113,697
73	Ginger Loeffler	$113,400
74	James Cox	$112,354
75	Sandra Varela	$110,837
76	Jacqueline Yarbrough-Whelpley	$110,064
77	Sean Fulton	$110,000
77	Melissa Mokry	$110,000
77	Krista Oswald	$110,000
77	Chang Sha	$110,000
81	Frances Cearley	$109,795
82	Yu-Jie Huang	$109,701
83	Steven Thompson	$109,338
84	Elizabeth Deanda	$108,990
84	Robert Rucker	$108,990
86	Michael Carnley	$108,000
87	Rachel Cloyd	$107,619
88	Michael Arendall	$107,309
89	Bradley Carpenter	$107,000
90	Justin Beam	$106,752
91	Donald McWhorter	$106,406
92	Beverly Rosendahl	$106,227
93	Gigi Paul	$106,064
94	Martha Luevano	$106,000
95	Leonard Uwakwe	$104,556
96	Thomas Kilmer	$104,331
97	David Muckerheide	$103,810
98	David Englert	$102,828
99	David Bolduc	$101,879
100	Lisa Fontenot	$100,971