North Houston News

Office of the Attorney General paid an average compensation of $65,118 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	Brent Webster	$275,000
2	Samuel Dorfman	$225,000
2	Lesley French-Henneke	$225,000
4	Judd Stone	$210,000
5	Aaron Reitz	$205,000
5	Murtaza Sutarwalla	$205,000
5	Christina McLeod	$205,000
5	Ryan Fisher	$205,000
5	Alejandro Garcia	$205,000
5	Shawn Cowles	$205,000
5	Ruth Thornton	$205,000
5	Joshua Reno	$205,000
13	Thomas Taylor	$205,000
13	Patrick Sweeten	$205,000
15	Lanora Pettit	$189,000
15	Clifford Luckey	$189,000
17	Steven Roddy	$185,904
18	Shauna Rogers	$185,746
19	Suzanna Hupp	$185,000
19	Laurinda Price	$185,000
21	Nanette Dinunzio	$185,000
22	Thomas Albright	$177,450
22	Christopher Hilton	$177,450
24	William Dupre	$175,000
24	Benjamin Wilson	$175,000
24	William Davis	$175,000
27	Priscilla Hubenak	$170,100
28	Garza Henry De La	$169,041
29	Raymond Winter	$168,920
30	Fore Elizabeth Brown	$168,000
31	Kara Kennedy	$168,000
32	Mauricio Vasquez	$166,950
33	Austin Kinghorn	$165,003
34	Celerino Torres	$165,000
34	Angela Goodwin	$165,000
36	Shanna Molinare	$164,850
37	Joshua Godbey	$164,000
38	Edward Marshall	$163,850
39	Alison Andrews	$163,800
39	Esteban Soto	$163,800
39	Rachel Obaldo	$163,800
42	Joel Rogers	$163,480
43	Colleen Tran	$162,000
44	Keith Hafer	$160,965
45	Melinda Montford	$160,000
46	Robert Maiorano	$160,000
47	Leslie Brock	$159,231
47	Virginia Hoelscher	$159,231
49	Kimberly Hubbard	$159,000
50	Grant Weaver	$158,448
51	Eric Hudson	$158,000
52	Lisa Massock	$157,132
53	William Thompson	$157,000
54	James Lloyd	$156,000
54	Steven Robinson	$156,000
56	Justin Gordon	$155,003
57	Jason Binford	$154,000
58	Warren Paxton Jr.	$153,750
59	Howell McCleskey	$153,292
60	Benjamin Dower	$152,000
61	Lauren Downey	$151,569
62	Leif Olson	$151,000
63	Susan Bonnen	$150,696
64	Andrew Harris	$150,294
65	Jonathan White	$150,237
65	Cara Pierce	$150,237
67	Rance Craft	$150,000
67	Jacqueline Haney	$150,000
67	Tonja Smith	$150,000
67	Kimberly Gdula	$150,000
67	Lisa Bennett	$150,000
67	Jeffrey White	$150,000
67	Evan Greene	$150,000
67	Ari Cuenin	$150,000
67	Beth Klusmann	$150,000
67	Jared Galaway	$150,000
67	Amber Platt	$150,000
67	Philip Lionberger	$150,000
79	Kellie Billings-Ray	$149,000
80	Matthew Block	$148,584
81	Jason Anderson	$148,109
82	Leah O'Leary	$148,000
83	Melissa Foley	$147,515
83	April Norris-Moffet	$147,515
83	Shawn Kitterman	$147,515
86	Michael Attaway	$147,017
87	David Falk	$146,799
88	Michael Patterson	$146,000
89	William Bova	$145,992
90	Enrique Varela	$145,000
90	Heather Myers	$145,000
92	Kent Richardson	$144,872
93	Michael Gray	$144,725
94	David Strain	$144,200
95	Kara Holsinger	$144,000
95	Pedro Perez Jr.	$144,000
97	Charles Arnold II	$143,904
98	Eric Hamilton	$143,461
98	Ryan Baasch	$143,461
98	William Cole	$143,461