Top 25 Salaries in Hays County

As public servants, they manage your city, keep your county running and operate the schools where your children get an education. And as a taxpayer in Hays County, you pay their salaries.

The Hays Free Press is publishing its annual salary guide, showing the top 25 salaries paid to officials in Buda, Kyle, Hays County and the Hays Consolidated Independent School District.

1. Tom Mattis, Kyle City Manager: $179,617

2. Jeremy Lyon, Hays CISD Superintendent: $179,000*

3. Anna Boling, Hays County Court at Law Judge: $135,832

4. Linda Rodriguez, Hays County Court at Law Judge: $135,832

5. Carter Scherff, Hays CISD Deputy Superintendent: $133,989*

6. Gregory M. Blake, Kyle Police Chief: $129,317
7. James Earp, Kyle Asst. City Manager: $124,279
8. Kimbroly Pool, Hays CISD Asst. Superintendent C&I: $124,015*
9. Kenneth Williams, Buda City Manager: $123,327
10. Charles Cunningham, Kyle Finance Director: $120,826
11. Julie Jerome, Hays CISD Asst. Superintendent Com. Rel.: $115,271*
12. Elizabeth Sumter, Hays County Judge: $112,365
13. Carolyn Hitt, Hays CISD Asst. Superintendent HR: $110,000*
14. Jerry Borcherding, Hays Director of Transportation, Planning: $109,730
15. Bill Herzog, Hays Auditor: $107,874
16. Fred Weber, Hays District Attorney First Assistant: $105,113
17. Elsa Hinojosa, Lehman High School Principal: $104,163*
18. Sherman Brodbeck, Hays Chief Deputy: $103,695
19. Warren Ketteman, Buda Executive Director, EDC: $103,336
20. David Pierce, Hays High School Principal: $99,500*
21. Dona Folmar, Hays CISD Executive Director Finance: $98,052*
22. Tommy Ratliff, Hays County Sheriff: $96,602
23. Pedro Hernandez, Kyle Police Captain: $95,905
24. Charlotte Barrera, Hays CISD Executive Director HR: $95,058*
25. John Thornell, Hays CISD Executive Director Assessment: $94,805*

Editor’s note: Citing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Hays CISD officials declined to list medical benefits paid to employees. The other three entities did provide that information.

*Salaries marked with an asterisk do not include health benefits.

Salaries for the district attorney and district judges are paid at the state level and not included in this list.

This information is a matter of public record under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Mika

Please post the current 2011 salaries for Hays CISD administrators. Thanks;
Buda by Choice

Other than provoking people to question their salaries, what was the goal/purpose for posting this public information? Sure, it is interesting to see what they are paid but without understanding the job complexities, duties and expectations, salaries paid for similar positions in other districts and cities, and the overall situation for Hays County, Hays CISD, and Buda and Kyle individually it is really odd to post people’s salaries even in a tough economy.

Yes, everyone makes a living. Yes, so salaries seem inflated to the average Joe like me, and YES this is a weird article to run unless there is some underlying reason. BIAS by the “Contributor”…. ??? Please explain.
classroom teacher

Buda by Choice: To differ, most people understand that people who are the highest paid in cities, school districts, counties etc. usually adjust their lifestyle upwardly as they make more money and, thus, are more desperate to hold their job. There becomes a conscious effort to fly under the radar and not make waves. Accordingly, the public needs to watch these highly paid folks and insure that they are earning their keep. The unholy relationship between highly paid beauracrats and the real estate industry bears continual watching. No, BudabyChoice this is a necessary and important function of responsible journalism.
Get a Life

Wow! Where do I sign up? So just a guess here but all these highly paid school officials can’t give a little bit of their salaries to help keep the staff that just lost their job? I’m not saying they don’t work for it and that I could do their job but I sure don’t understand their pay scale as I’m sure many others don’t as well. This only upsets me more seeing it in print as many great people will not have a job.
Lila Knight

This is an old list and almost half these people are gone now. In many cases, their replacements are receiving a lower salary.

The Texas Tribune (online news site) maintains a great database of salaries of elected and appointed officials for comparisons.
bystander

One interesting thing: there’s a huge push to have teachers, APs, administrators, secretaries, etc all work 8-430. So teachers, who with 8 years of experience and the same MA those administrators have are earning 42,000, while these other guys work essentially the same hours (3-4 more weeks out of the year) to earn 60,000+ more. The teacher pay is LOW in Texas and seems especially low in this area. Just sayin’
The mid-point salary in HaysCISD is lower than the starting salary in some other states.

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