Reno Reporter

Washoe County paid employees $97,143 on average during 2020, according to data compiled by Transparent Nevada.

This is more than the average public employee salary of $75,003.

The highest paid public employee in Nevada — Christopher Figgins — earned $519,910 as a Senior Attorney at Clark County.

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.

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.

When calculating average compensation, only employees categorized as full time were included.

The 100 highest earners at Washoe County in 2020

Rank	Employee	Amount Earned
1		$8,103,790
2	Laura Denison Knight	$402,712
3	John A. Hamilton	$329,068
4	Julie Anne Schrader	$313,575
5	Katherine Sue Callahan	$311,692
6	Greg J. Herrera	$294,982
7	Eric P. Brown	$293,027
8	Timothy K. Oconnor	$290,116
9	Jeffery Clark	$287,395
10	Wayne A. Yarbrough	$281,290
11	Kevin G. Higgins	$277,692
12	Henry Albert McNett	$275,846
13	Peter M. Petzing	$271,998
14	Donald W. Gil	$271,594
15	Scott E. Pearson	$268,403
16	Russell A. Pedersen	$266,125
17	Christopher J. Hicks	$266,097
18	David M. Solaro	$265,643
19	Marc A. Bello	$265,556
20	David W. Clifton	$264,659
21	Wade A. Mullen	$261,507
22	Frank W. Cervantes	$258,840
23	Kate L. Thomas	$258,652
24	Ralph T. Caldwell	$257,440
25	Sandra A. Barboza	$256,105
26	Christine Vuletich	$253,502
27	Pierre A. Hascheff	$251,386
28	Morgan M. Jaeck	$249,821
29	Edward Alan Tiras	$248,322
30	Kevin Irwin Dick	$246,422
31	Christian G. Wilson	$245,221
32	John Leroy Arrascada	$243,996
33	Dennis G. Hippert	$242,531
34	Jason D. Wood	$242,092
35	Edward George Robison	$241,917
36	Jacqueline L. Bryant	$241,082
37	Joshua M. Fisher	$237,888
38	Tracey L. Bloom	$236,832
39	Amber Howell	$235,812
40	Zygmunt C. Terelak	$233,470
41	Jose A. Avina	$233,028
42	Anthony L. Miceli	$232,517
43	Blaine E. Beard	$232,260
44	Zachary Norman Young	$231,798
45	Timothy J. Mosley	$230,693
46	Darrin K. Rice	$230,307
47	Derek C. Dreiling	$230,139
48	Jessica Longley	$229,799
49	Ryan Katherine Sullivan	$229,712
50	Andrea Elizabeth G. Obrien	$229,489
51	Marc P. Picker	$228,488
52	Vial David L. Watts	$228,367
53	Frank L. Eubanks	$226,766
54	Nancy L. McGill	$226,725
55	Ransford A. Vawters	$224,333
56	Greg Grzegorz Franczak	$223,097
57	Luke Prengaman	$222,794
58	James B. Leslie	$221,226
59	William R. Harvey	$220,352
60	John R. Petty	$220,285
61	Michael J. Obrien	$220,222
62	David V. Bailey	$220,011
63	Kelly A. Kossow	$219,807
64	Matthew Lee	$219,747
65	Richard A. Ramm Jr.	$219,469
66	Elizabeth B. Florez	$218,469
67	Elvira Koeder	$216,353
68	Gianna M. Verness	$215,560
69	Michael L. Wolz	$215,486
70	Wanda Kathleen Baker	$215,177
71	Katherine H. Lyon	$214,452
72	Matthew Jacob Durham	$214,203
73	Cindi Elaine Smith	$213,231
74	Jennifer H. Rains	$213,147
75	Sean B. Sullivan	$212,963
76	Jennifer Noble	$212,621
77	Cathy Hill	$212,314
78	Emmanuel Figueroa	$211,906
79	Eric S. Crump	$211,886
80	Amos Stege	$211,273
81	Ryan Edward Johnston	$211,139
82	Nathan J. Edwards	$210,883
83	Jo Lee M. Wickes	$210,750
84	Janit S. Bailey	$210,385
85	Shannon M. Bryant	$209,778
86	Patricia M. Hurley	$208,971
87	Nickolas J. Graham	$208,877
88	Peggy Marie Samples	$208,135
89	Jeffrey Scott Martin	$207,822
90	Jeffrey Dylan Scott	$207,617
91	Heather N. Kerwin	$207,370
92	Dwayne Smith	$207,274
93	Kerri Tibbetts Heward	$207,163
94	Michelle M. Kinamon	$206,774
95	Laura C. Albee	$204,506
96	Ian Silverberg	$204,376
97	Jason Raymond Walker	$203,719
98	John J. Leonard	$203,415
99	Venn Andrew Barrett	$203,339
100	Michael Roger Bolenbaker	$203,239