Reno Reporter

The University of Nevada Reno paid employees $70,037 on average during 2019, this is less than the public employee average of $70,309, according to data compiled by Transparent Nevada. Total compensation is made up of an employee's salary along with their benefits earned. Benefits include employer cost of providing health and retirement benefits, including pension debt payments.

The highest paid public employee in Nevada — Michael Scheidler — earned $943,140 as an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

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	Thomas L. Schwenk	$626,175
2	Merritt J. Norvell	$599,851
3	Max J. Coppes	$575,636
4	Marc A. Johnson	$517,634
5	Doug Knuth	$478,554
6	Marcus A. Erling	$452,918
7	Brian Kirkpatrick	$431,710
8	Eric P. Musselman	$406,948
9	Kevin R. Carman	$401,209
10	Kenton M. Sanders	$392,713
11	Mridul Gautam	$388,275
12	Jennifer M. Hagen	$343,605
13	David L. Carlson	$335,258
14	Gregory C. Mosier	$333,633
15	Krishna R. Pagilla	$331,844
16	Emmanuel A. Maragakis	$330,935
17	John K. Carothers	$328,343
18	Michael A. Webster	$328,043
19	Peter E. Sebaaly	$324,752
20	Daniel Spogen	$324,492
21	Melissa P. Piasecki	$322,173
22	Jeremy Alltop	$321,099
23	Alison S. Westfall	$319,907
24	Darryll Patterson	$319,851
25	Shannon E. Ellis	$314,016
26	Nageshwara Gullapalli	$312,906
27	Jeffrey A. Casteel	$305,527
28	Jeffrey A. Wong	$305,386
29	Victor E. Redding	$304,007
30	Kirk A. Bronander	$303,362
31	Roy F. Oman	$294,620
32	Thomas R. Kozel	$294,009
33	Jeffrey S. Thompson	$290,456
34	Manoj K. Mohanty	$290,219
35	Roberto C. Mancini	$289,431
36	Steven C. Zell	$289,178
37	Tin Yau Tam	$286,895
38	Cheryl Hug English	$285,874
39	Graham M. Kent	$285,161
40	Wei Yan	$284,906
41	Timothy K. Baker	$281,668
42	Catherine McCarthy	$281,060
43	Debera J. Thomas	$280,532
44	Debra A. Moddelmog	$278,821
45	Kirsten A. Lorenzen	$275,208
46	Ahmad M. Itani	$274,336
47	Lisa A. Calvo	$273,739
48	Jacqueline Huynh	$268,940
49	William A. Payne	$268,714
50	David C. Fiore	$268,429
51	Scott Earley	$268,145
52	Alan G. Stavitsky	$267,703
53	Kambiz Raffiee	$267,645
54	Indira Chatterjee	$267,185
55	Mary P. Dugan	$266,824
56	Kathryn L. Eckert	$266,180
57	Peter S. Reed	$264,326
58	Mehdi Saiidi	$263,765
59	Arthur A. Islas	$263,416
60	Eric B. Herzik	$263,263
61	Thomas B. Callister	$262,707
62	Iain Buxton	$262,522
63	Stephen Alford	$262,476
64	Ellen Purpus	$261,490
65	David P. Aucoin	$261,455
66	Steven L. Smith	$261,310
67	Matthew Mumme	$261,143
68	Gary Blomquist	$260,841
69	Geoffrey Blewitt	$259,210
70	Mark L. Stovak	$258,379
71	Amanda Levens	$258,286
72	Trudy A. Larson	$256,925
73	Anne W. Nolin	$256,664
74	Sonja E. Pippin	$256,150
75	Angus McClure	$256,120
76	Richard D. Williams	$256,022
77	Thomas R. Harris	$254,896
78	Kenneth W. Hunter	$253,312
79	Ian G. Buckle	$253,036
80	Gary E. Johnson	$252,443
81	Gurpreet S. Chahal	$251,498
82	Chunlin Liu	$251,298
83	Joshua B. Fitzgerald	$249,676
84	Sang D. Koh	$249,555
85	Sujatha Pitani	$249,270
86	Sesh Commuri	$248,513
87	Charlene R. Hart	$243,829
88	Devicharan Chidambaram	$242,930
89	Robert O. Ryan	$242,569
90	Leslie A. Greenberg	$241,714
91	Raheel Islam	$240,010
92	Sean M. Ward	$239,761
93	Frederick Calvin Harris	$239,137
94	Sandesh B. Pokharel	$238,960
95	Adam J. Hand	$238,942
95	Zong Tian	$238,942
97	Sheri Mendez	$238,817
98	Brian R. Passalacqua	$238,777
99	Jonathan Baker	$238,623
100	Sean M. McGoldrick	$238,209