Texas / General Land Office / Commissioner
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1 employees hold this title in General Land Office. Median total compensation for the role is $140,938, above the department median of $90,000.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Texas, the median wage for Chief Executives — about 8,780 people — is $257,850. General Land Office pays a median base salary of $140,938 for this role, 45% below that figure — about the 16th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Chief Executives across every employer in Texas, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows General Land Office’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Chief Executives — about 204,350 people — is $213,990. General Land Office’s median base salary is 34% below that national figure, about the 28th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Texas range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at General Land Office is $140,938, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Commissioner is held in 7 Texas departments. In General Land Office, the median of $140,938 ranks #7 of 7.
Median total compensation for the Commissioner role in other Texasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. In Texas, the median of $250,000 ranks #1 of 11. See Commissioner across all of Texas →
Median total compensation for comparable Commissionerroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Commissioner/General Land Office
Source-specific fields
At General Land Office, Dawn Buckingham serves as a Commissioner. They work erf - exempt regular full-time. Their 2026 pay totaled $140,938.