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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 76 of 1,577.

  1. Steve Zaic$112,201 a year
  2. Dorie Barboza$112,199 a year
  3. Michael Harmon$112,173 a yearon the Nye County payroll
  4. Lynnette Jones$112,167 a year
  5. David Couture$112,164 a year
  6. Evans Rutledge$112,163 a year
  7. Penny Marchell$112,124 a year
  8. Edwin Gaertner$112,122 a year
  9. Karen Williams$112,121 a year
  10. Charlie Gonzales$112,120 a year
  11. Steve Phillips$112,120 a year
  12. Phillip Watford$112,100 a year
  13. Timothy Connors$112,083 a year
  14. Donald Johnson$112,077 a year
  15. Sohila Bemanian$112,076 a year
  16. Alfred Babb$112,072 a year
  17. Andrea Hives$112,064 a year
  18. Justo Trujillo$112,061 a year
  19. Thomas Young$112,055 a year
  20. Edward Kiewicz$112,045 a year
  21. Brett Denny$112,041 a year
  22. Stephen Vermillion$112,041 a year
  23. Phyllis Leavitt$112,037 a year
  24. Tina Leahy$112,037 a year
  25. Jean Serum$112,028 a year
  26. David Pittman$112,026 a year
  27. Jon Wardlaw$112,023 a year
  28. Patrick Murray$112,011 a year
  29. Norman Mattimoe$112,000 a year
  30. Carmen Goicoechea$111,997 a year
  31. Michael Villani$111,994 a year
  32. Diane Fruth$111,982 a year
  33. Candice Staples$111,980 a year
  34. Corean Mayorga$111,967 a year
  35. Mark Koch$111,952 a year
  36. Michele Reynolds$111,949 a year
  37. Todd Mueller$111,938 a year
  38. John Howard$111,923 a year
  39. James Beltron$111,921 a year
  40. Romelle Cronin-Mack$111,916 a year
  41. Peter Rinaldo$111,905 a year
  42. Joseph Naves$111,894 a year
  43. Anita Taylor$111,893 a year
  44. Linda Vega$111,891 a year
  45. George Carranza$111,885 a year
  46. Gloria Sizemore$111,874 a year
  47. Joseph Cino$111,871 a year
  48. Brad Valladon$111,869 a year
  49. Margaret Sobaje$111,867 a year
  50. Buddy Fujii$111,866 a year

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