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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 9 of 1,577.

  1. Brian Rutledge$174,640 a year
  2. William Finley$174,580 a year
  3. Ricky Nicholson$174,549 a year
  4. Robert Quackenbush$174,510 a year
  5. Lee Bergevin$174,468 a year
  6. James Spencer$174,427 a year
  7. Brad Simpson$174,350 a year
  8. Kenneth Schmidt$174,268 a year
  9. Sean Walker$174,164 a year
  10. Robert Casos$174,078 a year
  11. Laura Rehfeldt-Emerick$173,956 a year
  12. Kathryn Holland$173,940 a year
  13. Edward Folker$173,909 a year
  14. Susan Deriso$173,862 a year
  15. Brandon Zirkle$173,858 a year
  16. Joseph Durousseau$173,801 a year
  17. Patrick Moers$173,799 a year
  18. Orlando Sanchez$173,770 a year
  19. Thomas Carroll$173,750 a year
  20. Thomas Conlin$173,736 a year
  21. Percy Washington$173,578 a year
  22. Tamara Lopes$173,571 a year
  23. Leslie Carter$173,569 a year
  24. Jon Klassen$173,509 a year
  25. William Minor$173,470 a year
  26. William Scott$173,444 a year
  27. David Della$173,399 a year
  28. Donald Hanks$173,366 a year
  29. Brian Allen$173,360 a year
  30. Gabriel Jimenez$172,911 a year
  31. Joseph Hulbert$172,875 a year
  32. Marc Bello$172,792 a year
  33. Steven Franks$172,781 a year
  34. Vicki Monroe$172,772 a year
  35. Donald West$172,685 a year
  36. William Fraser$172,630 a year
  37. Mark Winkelman$172,613 a year
  38. Paul Piker$172,400 a year
  39. Mark Olin$172,344 a year
  40. Thomas Harmon$172,315 a year
  41. Michael Blackwell$172,266 a year
  42. Dean Friedli$172,245 a year
  43. Valorie Stutz$172,228 a year
  44. Fred Meyer$172,185 a year
  45. Lauren Kohut-Rost$172,155 a year
  46. Charles Bussey$172,000 a year
  47. Terrence Jackson$171,970 a year
  48. Thomas Quam$171,894 a year
  49. Jordan Savage$171,885 a year
  50. Pamela Ojeda$171,803 a year

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