Government Salaries Explorer | The Texas Tribune

Use The Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer to review the compensation of hundreds of thousands of state and municipal employees in Texas, including those working for state agencies, public universities, school districts and mass-transit entities. This data is obtained by requesting salary records from those public entities through the Texas Public Information Act.

The Tribune publishes this information because its journalists believe that disclosing how tax dollars are spent is in the public interest. To date, this database contains:

Name	Type	Employees	Median salary	Last updated
Texas A&M Sponsored Research Services	University	214	$46,287	09/09/2015
Texas A&M Health Science Center	University	1,711	$53,011	09/09/2015
Tarleton State University	University	1,010	$52,261	09/09/2015
Texas A&M International University	University	1,026	$47,015	09/09/2015
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service	University	1,574	$47,564	09/09/2015
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	University	1,371	$44,124	09/09/2015
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	University	421	$60,000	09/09/2015
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service	University	884	$60,375	09/09/2015
Texas A&M Forest Service	University	556	$36,720	09/09/2015
Texas A&M System Offices	University	274	$72,234	09/09/2015
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Name	Title	Entity	Department	Compensation
Charles Rena Strong	Head Coach	University of Texas at Austin	Intercollegiate Athletics	$5,085,228
Ramesh Hariharan	Visiting Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	UT-EP Heart	$2,000,000
Walter Lowe	Prof, Chair, Smith Chair En	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Orthopedic Surgery	$1,811,271
Stephen W. Patterson	Athletic Director	University of Texas at Austin	Intercollegiate Athletics	$1,642,000
Hazim Safi	Prof & Director & Chair	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Cardiothoracic Vascular Surg	$1,516,920
Igor Gregoric	Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Pgm of Advanced Heart Failure	$1,500,000
Ronald A. DePinho	President	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	President'S Office	$1,439,100
August E. Garrido	Head Coach	University of Texas at Austin	Intercollegiate Athletics	$1,202,500
Stefan Kreuzer	Visiting Associate Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Orthopedic Surgery	$1,200,000
Kenneth Mathis	Visiting Associate Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Orthopedic Surgery	$1,200,000
Shaka Smart	Head Coach	University of Texas at Austin	Intercollegiate Athletics	$1,134,840
Biswajit Kar	Visiting Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Pgm of Advanced Heart Failure	$1,000,000
Pranav Loyalka	Visiting Associate Professor	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Pgm of Advanced Heart Failure	$1,000,000
Michael Young	President	Texas A&M University	President, Tamu	$1,000,000
Dong Kim	Professor and Chairman	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Neurosurgery	$998,159
Daniel Kim	Prof, Runnells Dist. Chair, En	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Neurosurgery	$993,427
Giuseppe Colasurdo	Pres & Alkek-Williams Dist Chr	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Office Of The President	$952,160
William McGarvey	Asc Pr of Orthopaedic Surg NTC	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Orthopedic Surgery	$950,000
Stephen G. Swisher	Division Head	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Surgery	$874,090
Raymond E. Sawaya	Chair	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Neurosurgery	$870,000
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