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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 348 of 1,577.

  1. James Brent$70,997 a year
  2. Brian Kilgore$70,995 a year
  3. Diane Larsen$70,995 a year
  4. Russell Olsen$70,994 a year
  5. Jerry Coles$70,992 a year
  6. John Merklein$70,992 a year
  7. Angelina Blackwell$70,988 a year
  8. Danno Seaton$70,987 a year
  9. James Cooney$70,986 a year
  10. Kathleen Mckinney$70,985 a year
  11. Denton Barney$70,983 a year
  12. Joyce Nelson$70,983 a year
  13. Janine Luciani$70,982 a year
  14. Rosene Chapman-Byrde$70,978 a year
  15. Scott Rhodes$70,978 a year
  16. Sally Sapunor$70,975 a year
  17. Mark Wiegand$70,974 a year
  18. Thomas Hills$70,973 a year
  19. Harry Heck$70,970 a year
  20. Shirley Wallace$70,969 a year
  21. Arlene Holt$70,967 a year
  22. Dean Higman$70,965 a year
  23. Jessie Sams$70,965 a year
  24. John Zabala$70,962 a year
  25. Edward Dougherty$70,961 a year
  26. Elizabeth Beltrami$70,959 a year
  27. Eric Fredenburg$70,957 a year
  28. Robert Phillips$70,957 a year
  29. Alann Green$70,956 a year
  30. Valerie Walker$70,955 a year
  31. Edward Hillygus$70,948 a year
  32. Barbara Doxey$70,945 a year
  33. Gillian Bartlett$70,944 a year
  34. David Thomas$70,943 a year
  35. Brian Backman$70,941 a year
  36. Peter Anderson$70,939 a year
  37. James Osborne$70,938 a year
  38. Debbie Madril$70,937 a year
  39. Gregory Thomson$70,935 a year
  40. Samuel Musselman$70,931 a year
  41. Stephanie Windish-Newman$70,930 a year
  42. Ramona Rivero$70,928 a year
  43. Diane Rose$70,925 a year
  44. Leonard Duck$70,919 a year
  45. Hattie Grandberry$70,914 a year
  46. Peter Moraitis$70,914 a year
  47. Anthony Delvecchio$70,911 a year
  48. Charles Kahlenberg$70,910 a year
  49. Karyn Lanham$70,910 a year
  50. Howard Loosbroock$70,908 a year

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