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Statewide

Nevada public pensions Beta

78,805 people drew a state pension (NVPERS) in 2025, from TransparentNevada's own yearly files. The largest is $355,717 a year. NVPERS publishes a name and an amount and nothing else: no employer, no job, no years of service. We hold 2020 to 2025.

What we add. The same name on the Nye County payroll (63 of them) or in the state's officer discipline record (9). Those are exact-name matches, and a common name can be a different person, so treat them as a lead and check both links.

This is new software reading a public list. If a row looks wrong, open it on TransparentNevada.

78,805 people, smallest first. Page 1208 of 1,577.

  1. Claudia Testa$69,159 a year
  2. Margaret Neel$69,160 a year
  3. Thomas Ferranola$69,161 a year
  4. Cindy Owings$69,162 a year
  5. Merry Balen$69,162 a year
  6. Nancy Postma$69,165 a year
  7. Sandra Vanderbeek$69,168 a year
  8. Carolina Olson$69,170 a year
  9. Barbara Lloyd$69,171 a year
  10. Shelly Bourque$69,175 a year
  11. Mark Palm$69,176 a year
  12. Mercedes Josephs$69,176 a year
  13. Melissa Woodbury$69,177 a year
  14. Scott Kelley$69,177 a year
  15. Joseph Connor$69,178 a year
  16. Virginia Keeler$69,180 a year
  17. Patricia Taylor$69,181 a year
  18. Susan Potter$69,181 a year
  19. Lillie Fleming$69,182 a year
  20. Lisa Keith$69,182 a year
  21. Bradley Tobler$69,184 a year
  22. Mary O'Donnell$69,188 a year
  23. Patrick Pevey$69,189 a year
  24. Antony Lettieri$69,193 a year
  25. Ray Espinoza$69,194 a year
  26. Richard Welch$69,201 a year
  27. Emilio Correa$69,203 a year
  28. Dennis Zarubi$69,206 a year
  29. Elizabeth Korinek$69,206 a year
  30. William Boyd$69,206 a year
  31. Barry Hensler$69,208 a year
  32. Blair Harkleroad$69,209 a year
  33. Arlene Smith$69,214 a year
  34. Janice Johnson$69,215 a year
  35. Martha Kernecker$69,218 a year
  36. Toni Cutler-Trifunac$69,224 a year
  37. Colin Soong$69,225 a year
  38. Timothy Burge$69,225 a year
  39. Linda Hartman-Maynard$69,227 a year
  40. Warren Rivas-Guevara$69,227 a year
  41. Allison Smithson$69,229 a year
  42. Joye Sword$69,229 a year
  43. Karen Ellis$69,229 a year
  44. Paula Leonard$69,229 a year
  45. Jeanine Johnson$69,231 a year
  46. David Lowe$69,234 a year
  47. Annette Ramirez$69,235 a year
  48. James Arnold$69,243 a year
  49. Kathleen Mccoy$69,244 a year
  50. Cristy Zuckerman$69,250 a year

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Source: TransparentNevada, NVPERS pensions, the CSV file it publishes for each year. Refreshed once a year.