East Sierra News

The Douglas County Lake Tahoe Sewer Authority paid employees $88,842 on average during 2019, this is more 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	Rob Hopkins	$238,828
2	Paula East-Janicki	$183,777
3	Nikolai Nikolov	$162,670
4	Michael Rogers	$138,029
5	Merle Brandon	$131,977
6	Bradley Seals	$126,088
7	Douglas Gibson	$122,128
8	Daniel Freyer	$116,215
9	Miguel Gutierrez	$107,214
10	Ying Johnson	$102,241
11	Frederick Howard	$96,558
12	Charles Banks	$66,542
13	Timothy Enterline	$63,019
14	Jason Dukek	$45,770
15	Alexander Webb	$30,942
16	Grant Thompson	$11,576
16	Charles Fagen	$11,576
16	Michael Bradford	$11,576
19	Darya Vogt	$9,558
20	Wesley Rice	$558
21	Robert Dean	$441
22	David Charlton	$100
23	John Phillips	$76
24	Eric Heffernon	$30
25	Charles Hull	$16