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Texas Agencies — Letter D
There are 7 Texas state agencies in OpenPayrolls whose names start with the letter D. Together they cover 882 employee records and roughly $78,324,398 in annualized base pay. The largest by headcount is DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY with 365 employees, and the highest individual salary in this slice is $390,908 at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
| Agency | Employees | Average pay | Highest pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | 15 | $118,498 | $237,313 |
| DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES | 341 | $65,888 | $300,000 |
| DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS | 16 | $136,242 | $238,379 |
| DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES | 17 | $158,454 | $279,982 |
| DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY | 365 | $100,567 | $390,908 |
| DEPARTMENT OF SAVINGS AND MORTGAGE | 6 | $179,311 | $228,120 |
| DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES | 122 | $93,630 | $300,000 |
About this slice of Texas state government
This page collects every Texas state agency in OpenPayrolls beginning with the letter D. The slice is not a category in any official sense — it is just an alphabetical browsing aid — but it does surface a useful cross-section of agencies and roles that you might not otherwise discover through topical navigation. Together the 7 entries here represent 882 employee records (14.7% of the OpenPayrolls dataset for Texas state government) and roughly $78,324,398 in annualized base compensation, averaging $88,803 per record.
The largest entry on this page by headcount is DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, which alone accounts for 365 records — 41% of this letter slice. The highest individual salary reported anywhere on this page is $390,908 at DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The average annual pay across all 882 records here is $88,803, which compares to a statewide average of $112,904 across the full OpenPayrolls dataset. Slices like this are most useful as a complement to category-based browsing; for sector-level analysis, see our full agencies index or the full job-titles index.
Texas publishes its statewide payroll under open-records law, and OpenPayrolls re-presents that data in a browsable, link-friendly format so that any Texan — journalist, researcher, taxpayer, prospective employee — can navigate it without writing SQL. Each entry above links to a full record page with a salary distribution, the largest individual paychecks, the agencies (or, for titles, the cities) involved, and a longform narrative explaining what the numbers do and don’t represent. For the methodology behind these aggregates, including which fields are excluded from the “annual pay” figure, see the methodology page.