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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 496 of 1,577.

  1. Steven Winkle$59,695 a year
  2. Ben Johnson$59,693 a year
  3. Lisa Almada-Funkhouser$59,693 a year
  4. Barbara Taghva$59,691 a year
  5. Estelle Jorgensen$59,690 a year
  6. Debra Bradfield$59,688 a year
  7. Fred Smith$59,686 a year
  8. Keith Whipple$59,684 a year
  9. Robert Jones$59,682 a year
  10. Adah Kennon$59,681 a year
  11. Debe Rougeau$59,680 a year
  12. Galen Denio$59,675 a year
  13. James Blackford$59,674 a year
  14. Steven Corry$59,674 a year
  15. Christopher Zabriskie$59,672 a year
  16. Mike Vogler$59,672 a year
  17. Stevan Radmanovich$59,672 a year
  18. Bryan Veil$59,671 a year
  19. James Maddox$59,669 a year
  20. Mary Johnson$59,669 a year
  21. Barbara Weisenthal$59,665 a year
  22. Brenton Lago$59,664 a year
  23. Chris Arnett$59,664 a year
  24. Curtis Pilgreen$59,660 a year
  25. Denton Gehr$59,660 a year
  26. Laela Passalacqua$59,660 a year
  27. Debra Machen$59,659 a year
  28. Susie Sauceda$59,659 a year
  29. William Evers$59,659 a year
  30. Douglas Colbert$59,658 a year
  31. Pierre Szegedi$59,658 a year
  32. Gregory Crawford$59,657 a year
  33. Paula Tlachac$59,657 a year
  34. Ruth Bray$59,655 a year
  35. Clifford Barnhouse$59,653 a year
  36. Kathy Hall$59,653 a year
  37. Linda Dow$59,651 a year
  38. Mary Scott$59,651 a year
  39. David Leoni$59,647 a year
  40. Barbara Grubaugh$59,646 a year
  41. Raymond Esteves$59,646 a year
  42. Susan Severino$59,644 a year
  43. Suzy Heinz$59,642 a year
  44. Robin Reedy$59,639 a year
  45. Tanya Goode$59,638 a year
  46. Emelita Weldon$59,637 a year
  47. Garth Pintler$59,635 a year
  48. Christine Stieber$59,632 a year
  49. Kenneth Lauria$59,631 a year
  50. Linda Garcia$59,629 a year

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