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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 229 of 1,577.

  1. Robert Sumner$82,120 a year
  2. Marilyn Meline$82,119 a year
  3. Bobby Kelly$82,115 a year
  4. Bonnie Schultz$82,115 a year
  5. Carolyn Gougar$82,114 a year
  6. Larry Nixon$82,111 a year
  7. Barbara Enochson$82,109 a year
  8. Darl Venner-Kiernan$82,109 a year
  9. Ruby Riley$82,108 a year
  10. Emerson Smock$82,106 a year
  11. Elden Severin$82,102 a year
  12. James Smith$82,101 a year
  13. Debra Richards$82,097 a year
  14. Tamiko Brown$82,094 a year
  15. Janis Pitrone$82,092 a year
  16. Jon Zeh$82,092 a year
  17. Roger Van Oordt$82,088 a year
  18. Milton Miller$82,086 a year
  19. Christian Szafarski$82,084 a year
  20. Anna Boyer$82,082 a year
  21. Terry Powers$82,080 a year
  22. John Halderman$82,079 a year
  23. David Varrato$82,078 a year
  24. Claudia Menesini$82,074 a year
  25. Paula Cedar$82,072 a year
  26. Gwendolyn Jackson$82,071 a year
  27. Susan Gambarelli$82,070 a year
  28. Jesse Grant$82,065 a year
  29. Elaine Doyon$82,064 a year
  30. Christine Christensen$82,057 a year
  31. Jeffrey Jones$82,057 a year
  32. Elfriede Lesnick$82,056 a year
  33. Jeffrey Hardcastle$82,054 a year
  34. Sivasothi Hamilton$82,053 a year
  35. Tona Lytle$82,051 a year
  36. John Amundson$82,048 a year
  37. James Neil$82,047 a year
  38. Kathleen Somers$82,044 a year
  39. Venetta Appleyard$82,044 a year
  40. David Zotter$82,043 a year
  41. Ruth Dyer$82,043 a year
  42. Linda Gille$82,038 a year
  43. Susan Joseph$82,037 a year
  44. Bruno Chalko$82,033 a year
  45. Susan Gibson$82,030 a year
  46. Peter Blaschick$82,023 a year
  47. Claude Mcmahan$82,020 a year
  48. Deborah Miller$82,017 a year
  49. Lynette Davis$82,017 a year
  50. Harold Keaton$82,014 a year

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