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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 191 of 1,577.

  1. Torris Brand$87,143 a year
  2. Mary Hausauer$87,140 a year
  3. Janet Borba$87,139 a year
  4. Joseph Greco$87,125 a year
  5. Carmela Jones-Thomas$87,124 a year
  6. Diane Hernandez$87,123 a year
  7. Roderick Mackenzie$87,118 a year
  8. Clint Ulrich$87,115 a year
  9. Yvette Deighton$87,113 a year
  10. Eloy Strayhand$87,112 a year
  11. Shelly White$87,112 a year
  12. Kathryn Cassell$87,108 a year
  13. Michele Robinson$87,106 a year
  14. James Starr$87,098 a year
  15. Joseph Peroglio$87,091 a year
  16. Melanie Dunlop$87,079 a year
  17. Eric Johnson$87,077 a year
  18. Jerlys Henderson$87,076 a year
  19. Ralph Felices$87,074 a year
  20. Margaret Harmon$87,070 a year
  21. Douglas Pope$87,062 a year
  22. Gerald Williams$87,056 a year
  23. Iva Smith$87,055 a year
  24. John Boothby$87,054 a year
  25. Lurlene Howard$87,053 a year
  26. Linda O'Brien$87,047 a year
  27. Sharon Phelps$87,043 a year
  28. Troy Callahan$87,043 a year
  29. Thomas Carson$87,036 a year
  30. Curtis Higgons$87,035 a year
  31. Michael Magee$87,032 a year
  32. Robert Cahill$87,030 a year
  33. Cindy Wahrenbrock$87,029 a year
  34. Randy Dotson$87,029 a year
  35. Joseph Granata$87,024 a year
  36. Krystal Zboinski$87,024 a year
  37. Jonathan Rouse$87,020 a year
  38. Joseph Warner$87,020 a year
  39. Johnny Fong$87,010 a year
  40. Kristine Bauman$87,009 a year
  41. Michael Peschl$87,009 a year
  42. Terry Kurtz$86,998 a year
  43. Alaina Burtenshaw$86,994 a year
  44. Michael Ransom$86,990 a year
  45. Lamar Lucas$86,989 a year
  46. Robert Behrman$86,984 a year
  47. Luther Smith$86,982 a year
  48. Elaine Smith$86,981 a year
  49. Joseph Fretz$86,980 a year
  50. Neal Johnston$86,980 a year

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