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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 55 of 1,577.

  1. Nathan Parker$121,146 a year
  2. Suzanne Arnona$121,144 a year
  3. David Bailey$121,121 a year
  4. James Bonkavich$121,116 a year
  5. Susan Early$121,105 a year
  6. Judy Cornelius$121,098 a year
  7. Louis Gazes$121,088 a year
  8. James Hardesty$121,083 a year
  9. Joseph Strolin$121,024 a year
  10. Bobby Smith$121,013 a year
  11. Douglas Scott$121,007 a year
  12. James Sesto$121,006 a year
  13. James Ortiz$120,991 a year
  14. James Pendleton$120,989 a year
  15. Timothy Burris$120,975 a year
  16. Patrick Benedickt$120,970 a year
  17. Martin Wildemann$120,966 a year
  18. Deborah Griffith$120,955 a year
  19. James Begbie$120,955 a year
  20. Ronald Swirczek$120,955 a year
  21. Steven Kopacz$120,948 a year
  22. Wayne Holman$120,946 a year
  23. Timothy Stephens$120,943 a year
  24. Andrew Leavitt$120,942 a year
  25. John Devaney$120,938 a year
  26. Michael Lucas$120,926 a year
  27. Dan Long$120,916 a year
  28. Robert Dixon$120,824 a year
  29. John Arneson$120,816 a year
  30. Robert Hadfield$120,812 a year
  31. Kraig Smith$120,804 a year
  32. Robert Hanifan$120,786 a year
  33. Kenneth Love$120,783 a year
  34. Robert Cifelli$120,766 a year
  35. Kevin Johnson$120,758 a year
  36. Shirley Landrito$120,748 a year
  37. Michael Holly$120,731 a year
  38. Robert Sack$120,718 a year
  39. Dorothy Wilson$120,708 a year
  40. Kristen Lynch$120,699 a year
  41. Filippo Liani$120,673 a year
  42. Michael Mallory$120,671 a year
  43. Daniel Nunez$120,667 a year
  44. Mark Morton$120,667 a year
  45. Mary Elrod$120,654 a year
  46. Gregory Salter$120,636 a year
  47. Jo Lee Wickes$120,598 a year
  48. Greta Woyciehowsky$120,586 a year
  49. Theodore Mott$120,583 a year
  50. Ilona Warren$120,578 a year

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