Government salary transparency for Texas — how we built it

HomeDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETYCourtney Tarnutzer

Courtney Tarnutzer

LEGAL SECRETARY III at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

$53,304Annualized pay
$4,442Monthly rate
December 1, 2022Hire date
2026Data year

Salary record

Full nameCourtney Tarnutzer
Job titleLEGAL SECRETARY III
AgencyDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Annualized base pay$53,304
Monthly rate$4,442
Hire dateDecember 1, 2022
Employment typeCRF - CLASSIFIED REGULAR FULL-TIME
Data year2026
Record ID341214

About this record

Courtney Tarnutzer is listed in the OpenPayrolls dataset as a LEGAL SECRETARY III at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The annualized pay shown above is what the State of Texas reports for this employee at the time of the most recent published payroll snapshot. It represents base salary only — it does not include overtime, longevity pay, hazard pay, supplements paid from non-state funds, retirement contributions, health benefits, or any one-time payments.

The role of LEGAL SECRETARY III at this agency typically pays $53,304 on average across all Texas state agencies, with values in the dataset ranging from $53,304 to $53,304. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY as a whole employs 365 people in our dataset, with an average annualized salary of $100,567.

This page is a public record. The information shown is published by the State of Texas under the state's open-records laws, which treat the names, job titles, agencies, and salaries of public employees as fundamentally public information. If you are this employee and believe a record needs correction, see our about page for the source-of-record process — corrections must be made at the agency or with the state office that publishes the underlying dataset, not on this site, because we mirror published data and do not hold a copy of record.

Similar pay at the same agency

Other employees at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY with annualized pay closest to $53,304.

NameJob titleAnnual pay
Tonia Jones DOCUMENT SERVICES TECH IV $53,253
Ishran Huda MANAGEMENT ANALYST I $52,800
Wendy Friesenhahn INVESTIGATOR III $53,931
Miriam Marshall ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IV $54,238
Stephanie Campos HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST III $54,339
Irma Irizarry HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST I $54,482
Heather Hinojosa PROGRAM SPECIALIST II $54,532
Patricia Goodnature CRIME LABORATORY SPEC II $55,164