SE Texas Times

Office of State Prosecuting Attorney paid an average compensation of $104,537 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	Stacey Soule	$154,000
2	Margaret Johnson-Liu	$115,573
2	John Messinger	$115,573
4	Jacqueline McDunn	$33,000