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Texas Agencies — Letter S

There are 16 Texas state agencies in OpenPayrolls whose names start with the letter S. Together they cover 111 employee records and roughly $18,098,202 in annualized base pay. The largest by headcount is SENATE with 39 employees, and the highest individual salary in this slice is $459,000 at SENATE.

AgencyEmployeesAverage payHighest pay
SECOND COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT 8 $217,573 $244,475
SECRETARY OF STATE 10 $146,562 $285,000
SENATE 39 $194,575 $459,000
SEVENTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT 3 $222,658 $244,475
SIXTH COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT 2 $145,113 $225,225
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION BOARD 3 $89,620 $106,170
STATE AUDITOR'S OFFICE 9 $114,025 $242,550
STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS 2 $45,200 $47,400
STATE BOARD OF VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMIN 2 $55,000 $60,000
STATE COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT 1 $105,000 $105,000
STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS 7 $125,558 $233,849
STATE PRESERVATION BOARD 8 $77,990 $202,199
STATE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY 1 $210,000 $210,000
STATE SECURITIES BOARD 3 $107,441 $197,473
SUNSET ADVISORY COMMISSION 1 $220,500 $220,500
SUPREME COURT 12 $207,438 $266,700

About this slice of Texas state government

This page collects every Texas state agency in OpenPayrolls beginning with the letter S. 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 16 entries here represent 111 employee records (1.9% of the OpenPayrolls dataset for Texas state government) and roughly $18,098,202 in annualized base compensation, averaging $163,047 per record.

The largest entry on this page by headcount is SENATE, which alone accounts for 39 records — 35% of this letter slice. The highest individual salary reported anywhere on this page is $459,000 at SENATE. The average annual pay across all 111 records here is $163,047, 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.