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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 555 of 1,577.

  1. Betty Blazek$55,177 a year
  2. Patrick Caufield$55,177 a year
  3. Phyllis Bryant$55,177 a year
  4. Lisa Smith$55,173 a year
  5. Paul Cooks$55,173 a year
  6. Gary Butori$55,171 a year
  7. Trudy Tippetts$55,171 a year
  8. Natividad Nunez$55,170 a year
  9. John Kirtley$55,168 a year
  10. Linda Foy$55,168 a year
  11. Frederick Koopmann$55,167 a year
  12. Suzanne Boyd$55,167 a year
  13. Edward Pierce$55,164 a year
  14. Evie Ward$55,164 a year
  15. Terry Edgmon$55,163 a year
  16. Gina Baker$55,161 a year
  17. Elaine Donahoe$55,160 a year
  18. Julia Barnette$55,160 a year
  19. Monica Eisenman$55,159 a year
  20. Jacqueline Marsing$55,155 a year
  21. John Cornyn$55,154 a year
  22. David Wolfson$55,153 a year
  23. Edwin Molina$55,153 a year
  24. Thalia Sankovich$55,153 a year
  25. Melanie Harrington$55,149 a year
  26. Ronald Cameron$55,149 a year
  27. Calvin January$55,148 a year
  28. Ladawn Harney$55,148 a year
  29. Ramona Alvarez$55,147 a year
  30. Patricia Deweel$55,144 a year
  31. Linda Weight$55,143 a year
  32. Janet Swan$55,142 a year
  33. Denise Monaco$55,140 a year
  34. Stephen Baxter$55,140 a year
  35. Debra Norton$55,139 a year
  36. Eric Nagl$55,139 a year
  37. Donna Di Nola$55,138 a year
  38. Alison Moss$55,137 a year
  39. Susan Harvey$55,137 a year
  40. Paul Hughes$55,131 a year
  41. Deborah Moder$55,130 a year
  42. Dianna Sonnenburg$55,128 a year
  43. Tamra Carter$55,122 a year
  44. Elizabeth Fujii$55,118 a year
  45. Laureen Pedersen$55,117 a year
  46. Thomas Logan$55,116 a year
  47. Michael Belmont$55,113 a year
  48. Andrea Pelto$55,110 a year
  49. Brian Davis$55,110 a year
  50. Ralph Street$55,108 a year

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