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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 381 of 1,577.

  1. Dianna Burns$68,222 a year
  2. Michael Osterman$68,220 a year
  3. Edwin Martin$68,219 a year
  4. Jeffrey Milligan$68,219 a year
  5. Rosemary Vitavec$68,218 a year
  6. Billy Coleman$68,214 a year
  7. Patricia Fitzpatrick$68,214 a year
  8. Jannis Yeagy$68,209 a year
  9. Kathryn Pugh$68,209 a year
  10. Larry Stout$68,209 a year
  11. Patricia Parks$68,207 a year
  12. Janine Ross$68,204 a year
  13. Kenneth Gray$68,203 a year
  14. Diane Dunham$68,202 a year
  15. William Shaw$68,202 a year
  16. Craig Newlin$68,199 a year
  17. Jeffrey Keel$68,198 a year
  18. Scott Knecht$68,198 a year
  19. Mary Linge$68,197 a year
  20. Theresa Boley$68,197 a year
  21. John Ahrens$68,196 a year
  22. Karen Kloepfer$68,195 a year
  23. Donald Gillespie$68,193 a year
  24. James Bassett$68,193 a year
  25. Aaron Ryer$68,190 a year
  26. Joseph Higgins$68,188 a year
  27. Anthony Azevedo$68,183 a year
  28. Valerie Stewart$68,182 a year
  29. Fred Rutherford$68,180 a year
  30. Sherrie Bisson$68,180 a year
  31. Leslie Woolford$68,175 a year
  32. Helen Silberhorn$68,173 a year
  33. William Pollock$68,173 a year
  34. Steven Witt$68,170 a year
  35. James Larance$68,169 a year
  36. Duane Feuerhammer$68,166 a year
  37. Sandra Kell$68,166 a year
  38. Douglas Sonnemann$68,164 a year
  39. Tania Kasten$68,160 a year
  40. James Fahey$68,158 a year
  41. Toni-Lee James$68,155 a year
  42. Carolann Fletcher$68,152 a year
  43. Cynthia Fischer$68,152 a year
  44. Louise Coleman$68,152 a year
  45. Patricia Nutting$68,149 a year
  46. Mary Harper$68,148 a year
  47. Tommie Wooden-Medlock$68,148 a year
  48. Clifford Bricker$68,147 a year
  49. Brenda Fermanich$68,146 a year
  50. Lonnie Nicosia$68,146 a year

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