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Trading Investment Director

Texas state employees in the role of Trading Investment Director. We have 6 employee records on file, spread across 1+ state agencies.

6Employees
$265,047Average pay
$203,398Lowest pay
$315,408Highest pay
Found at: TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM

About this role

The Trading Investment Director classification is used across multiple Texas state agencies. In the OpenPayrolls dataset, 6 employees hold this title, with annualized pay ranging from $203,398 to $315,408 and an average of $265,047. The spread between the highest and lowest paid in this role is $112,010.

Pay variation within a single Texas state classification is normal and expected. The State of Texas operates a position classification plan in which most titles correspond to a salary group with a defined minimum, midpoint, and maximum. Agencies are free to set individual pay anywhere within that band based on the employee's experience, prior agency service, market conditions for the specialty, and any agency-specific salary supplements. Universities, certain regulatory boards, and elected officials' offices are not bound by the standard classification plan at all and set pay independently — which is why the same job title can show very different numbers depending on the employer.

This role appears most often at TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM. Click any agency to see its full payroll, or scroll down for the complete list of employees who hold this title in our dataset.

Geographically, the Trading Investment Director role concentrates in Austin. Cost-of-living, agency funding source, and tenure all contribute to the city-by-city variation in posted pay. For full context, read our methodology and browse comparable Texas roles in the job titles index.

Trading Investment Director by city

City-specific salary breakdowns for the Trading Investment Director role. Each page includes local averages, top earners, and the agencies hiring locally.

Employees holding this title

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NameAgencyAnnual payHire date
Steven Peterson TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $315,408 January 14, 2008
Demetrius Pope TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $296,000 November 17, 2006
Christopher Pan TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $259,000 June 1, 2012
Melissa Jerkins TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $259,000 October 1, 2021
Sean Letcher TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $257,478 April 1, 2013
Donald Stanley TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM $203,398 April 1, 2013