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Real Estate Commission paid an average compensation of $64,619 during 2020, this was more 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	Chelsea Buchholtz	$175,000
2	Vanessa Burgess	$150,008
3	Anthony Slagle	$150,000
4	Ranada Williams	$140,000
5	Kathleen Santos	$130,000
6	Stephen Rapp	$124,800
7	Abby Lee	$122,004
8	Thomas Watson	$113,400
9	Troy Beaulieu	$112,800
10	Michael Molloy	$108,000
11	Robert Hood Jr.	$105,000
12	Tawana Hood	$102,000
13	Alex Muthukatil	$100,580
14	Jennifer Wheeler	$99,000
15	Damon Crisman	$98,100
16	Melissa Tran	$98,000
17	Jason Romero	$97,785
18	Denise Sample	$97,500
19	James Elveston	$96,720
20	Melissa Huerta	$96,390
21	Aimee Cooper	$96,384
21	Beverly Rabenberg	$96,384
23	Regina Durden	$95,000
24	Pimporn Mayo	$93,240
25	Jose Renteria	$93,038
26	John Clark	$93,009
27	Daron Goertz	$90,000
28	Scott Milo	$88,620
29	Oretha Trice	$87,600
30	Sandra Zimmerman	$85,680
31	Amy Jasper	$85,080
32	Christine Anderson	$84,000
33	John Phillips	$81,600
34	Mark Lee	$80,100
35	Ian Monroe	$79,200
36	Robin Forrester	$79,000
37	Jeffrey Strawmyer	$78,900
38	Sarah Decker	$77,868
38	James Perdue Jr.	$77,868
40	Brittany Mutschler	$77,700
41	Dione Frederick	$77,182
41	Amber Hinton	$77,182
43	Roy Minton	$76,860
44	Michael Burton	$75,600
44	William Mange	$75,600
46	Tina Brown	$71,700
47	Antony Cherian	$71,688
48	Pamela Carter	$69,000
49	Christina Johnson	$68,400
50	Sharon Martinets	$68,352
51	Marjorie Caldwell	$66,126
52	Sylvia Showacre	$65,805
53	Gwilla Jackson	$64,136
54	Crystal Rivera	$63,425
55	Crystal Stowell	$63,000
56	Margaret Weilbacher	$61,800
56	Jennifer Grube	$61,800
58	Susan Miller	$61,416
59	Lashonda Reese	$59,580
60	Raquel Salazar	$59,220
61	Debra Monroe	$59,000
62	Tessa Sowell	$58,524
63	Glenn Killey	$58,272
64	Michael Sample-Diehl	$56,000
65	Ranitra Johnson	$55,620
66	Angelo Jones	$55,500
67	Andrea Thorn	$55,200
68	Danecia Jackson	$54,864
69	Mary Jean Griffin	$54,648
70	Emily Hein	$54,600
71	Rebecca Bennett	$54,000
72	Becky Jarmon	$52,200
73	Bernetta Tolbert	$51,056
74	Lateesha Brown	$50,400
74	Jeffery McBride Jr.	$50,400
76	Nikita Cummings	$50,232
77	Sarah Havis	$50,000
78	Erin Colby	$49,400
79	Elizabeth Canfield	$48,500
80	Maria Leigh	$48,060
81	Edward Elizondo	$46,620
82	Vanessa Galvan	$46,400
83	Karen Long	$45,600
84	Michael Hovey	$45,000
85	Ashley Fletcher	$44,496
86	Irene Quinonez	$44,146
87	Michelle Resendiz	$44,100
88	Maury James	$43,500
89	Christina Vela	$43,260
90	Kandice Valdez	$43,001
91	Patricia Bell	$42,000
91	Sonja King	$42,000
91	Jenny Mason	$42,000
94	David Dickey	$41,400
94	Joi Nelson	$41,400
94	Arthur Saenz	$41,400
94	Martinez Norma Sanchez	$41,400
98	Shunya Fleming	$41,260
99	Deneika Denali	$40,980
99	Michelle Manigault	$40,980