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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, largest first. Page 179 of 1,577.

  1. Kenneth Hanshew$88,879 a year
  2. Lenwood Cooper$88,873 a year
  3. David Watts Vial$88,872 a year
  4. Kevin Punzalan$88,871 a year
  5. Carin Fischer$88,867 a year
  6. Anitha Shankar$88,866 a year
  7. Michael Branch$88,866 a year
  8. Mikel Lopategui$88,865 a year
  9. Colleen Leavens-Knapp$88,860 a year
  10. Kenneth Fitzpatrick$88,860 a year
  11. Nancy Young$88,858 a year
  12. Nadine Carter$88,854 a year
  13. Jorge Correa$88,853 a year
  14. Leslie Ede$88,853 a year
  15. Charles Di Leo$88,851 a year
  16. Douglas Albertson$88,847 a year
  17. Gary Chaires$88,845 a year
  18. Gina Johnson$88,844 a year
  19. Larry Cripe$88,840 a year
  20. Donna Engellenner$88,837 a year
  21. William Burgie$88,837 a year
  22. Lyvonne Walker$88,832 a year
  23. Susan Weikel$88,832 a year
  24. Aaron Smith$88,820 a year
  25. David Thweatt$88,812 a year
  26. Sally Feldman$88,811 a year
  27. Thomas Anderson$88,811 a year
  28. Deborah Hassett$88,808 a year
  29. Nancy Sampson$88,804 a year
  30. Beverly Bayan$88,802 a year
  31. Preeya Panpipat$88,797 a year
  32. Ronald Beck$88,792 a year
  33. Wayne Walker$88,792 a year
  34. Felisa Nunez$88,790 a year
  35. Robert Schlegel$88,790 a year
  36. Theresa Gandolfo$88,790 a year
  37. Richard Hough$88,789 a year
  38. Susan Saltzman$88,784 a year
  39. Lisa Wilson$88,783 a year
  40. Suzette Wheeler$88,780 a year
  41. Robin Gillis$88,778 a year
  42. Michael Colburn$88,775 a year
  43. Janne Hanrahan$88,772 a year
  44. Gordon Stenger$88,770 a year
  45. Helen Henson$88,767 a year
  46. Debra Corbit$88,765 a year
  47. Piper Allan$88,763 a year
  48. Mary Hammond$88,762 a year
  49. Nancy Hutchinson$88,762 a year
  50. Joelle Mills$88,760 a year

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