North Houston News

Public Utility Commission of Texas paid an average compensation of $85,247 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	Constance Corona	$205,000
1	Stephen Journeay	$205,000
3	James Glotfelty	$201,000
3	Peter Lake	$201,000
3	Lori Cobos	$201,000
3	James McAdams	$201,000
7	Thomas Gleeson	$200,000
8	Rachelle Robles	$170,000
9	Rebecca Zerwas	$170,000
9	Philip English	$170,000
11	Benter Tammy Holguin	$150,000
11	Richard Burch	$150,000
13	Darryl Tietjen	$150,000
13	Keith Rogas	$150,000
15	David Smeltzer	$150,000
16	Hunter Burkhalter	$140,000
16	Mark Hovenkamp	$140,000
16	Shelah Cisneros	$140,000
19	Tara Rejino	$135,000
19	David Gordon	$135,000
21	Virginia Stephens	$130,000
22	Thomas Hunter	$126,700
23	Rustin Tawater	$120,000
23	Charles Bondurant	$120,000
23	Angela Wolf	$120,000
26	Creighton McMurray	$120,000
26	Jonathan Oliver	$120,000
26	William Abbott	$120,000
26	Anna Givens	$120,000
26	Therese Harris	$120,000
31	Kasey Feldman-Thomason	$110,000
31	Smith Gina Misquez	$110,000
31	Michael Hoke	$110,000
34	Raymond Walker	$110,000
35	Harika Basaran	$100,000
35	Mark Filarowicz	$100,000
35	Robert Haguewood	$100,000
35	Robert Parish	$100,000
35	Parrish Pratt	$100,000
35	Shawnee Claiborn-Pinto	$100,000
35	Kristen Mendoza	$100,000
42	Jay Stone	$99,900
43	Celia Eaves	$98,800
44	Adrian Hazard	$95,750
45	Heidi Graham	$95,000
45	David Hrncir	$95,000
47	Van Moreland	$94,000
48	Mary Beck	$93,800
49	James Coffman	$93,000
49	Bruce Westmoreland	$93,000
51	Jessica Lance	$92,000
51	John Kelly	$92,000
53	Jesus Morales Jr.	$91,000
54	Jenna King	$90,000
55	Ian Groetsch	$90,000
55	Werner Roth	$90,000
57	Isaac Ta	$88,000
57	Rastogi Rama Singh	$88,000
59	Lisa Fuentes	$87,700
60	Katie Marx	$85,000
60	Emily Sears	$85,000
60	Christina Denmark	$85,000
60	Ramya Ramaswamy	$85,000
60	John Poole	$85,000
65	Patricia Garcia	$82,000
66	Stephen Mendoza	$81,000
66	Jorge Ordonez	$81,000
68	Gregory Siemankowski	$80,004
69	Kavitha Anandan	$80,000
70	John Harrison	$80,000
70	Kevin Bartz	$80,000
70	William Lehmann	$80,000
73	Richard Saldana	$78,000
73	MacKenzie Nunez	$78,000
75	Courtney Dean	$77,000
76	Ruth Stark	$76,956
77	Harold Kohl	$76,000
77	Brady Cox	$76,000
79	James Kelsaw Jr.	$75,600
80	Grace Lager	$75,000
80	Merritt Lander	$75,000
80	Leila Guerrero	$75,000
80	Nima Momtahan	$75,000
80	Tsungirirai Gotora	$75,000
80	Lorenzo Garcia	$75,000
86	Cynthia Guerrero	$74,200
87	Garcia Alfonso Hernandez	$74,000
88	Onyinyechi Anaele	$74,000
88	Canto Adrian Narvaez	$74,000
88	Scott Miles	$74,000
88	Jasmin Augustus	$74,000
88	Austin Spraetz	$74,000
88	Forrest Smith	$74,000
94	Gary Horton Jr.	$73,000
94	Tracy Montes	$73,000
94	Komal Patel	$73,000
97	Alexander Scheifler	$72,000
97	Fred Bednarski III	$72,000
97	Alison Smith	$72,000
97	Mariah Benson	$72,000