Ladonna Burton with Wayne County Community College ranks in the 12th percentile in pay as a public Michigan employee by earning $8,023 in 2020, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.
The top paid public employee in Michigan – Curtis Ivery – earned $525,997 at Wayne County Community College.
The data was gathered by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit research and educational institute.
Top 100 highest paid Michigan public employees in 2020
| Rank | Employee | Employer | Amount Earned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curtis Ivery | Wayne County Community College | $525,997 |
| 2 | Jon M. Braeutigam | Treasury | $458,832 |
| 3 | Robert L. Brackenbury | Treasury | $400,600 |
| 4 | Zohra J. Khan | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $344,917 |
| 5 | Harun A. Rashid | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $340,089 |
| 6 | Lisa Hagel | Genesee County Intermediate School District | $309,851 |
| 7 | Gregory J. Parker | Treasury | $309,710 |
| 8 | James L. Elkins | Treasury | $309,470 |
| 9 | Huma A. Aziz | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $307,269 |
| 10 | Nikolai Vitti | Detroit Public Schools Community District | $303,554 |
| 11 | Geethani R. Jayasundera | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $296,895 |
| 12 | George E. Mellos | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $293,795 |
| 13 | Sumi Treesa Cyriac | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $292,408 |
| 14 | Aruna Bavineni | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $288,813 |
| 15 | Norman A. Weber | Military & Veteran Affairs | $283,761 |
| 16 | Rose Bellanca | Washtenaw Community College | $282,769 |
| 17 | Kevin M. Dyke | Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services | $282,564 |
| 18 | Mark J. Morante | Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity | $278,436 |
| 19 | Mary Goodnow | Delta College | $272,191 |
| 20 | Michael Devault | Macomb Intermediate School District | $270,328 |
| 21 | Phil Porter | Department of Natural Resources | $268,572 |
| 22 | Anne Pond | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $264,590 |
| 23 | Robert J. Hill | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $264,122 |
| 24 | Robert Shaner | Rochester Community Schools | $261,264 |
| 25 | Sandya Sathananthan | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $253,931 |
| 26 | Michael Shibler | Rockford Public Schools | $253,086 |
| 27 | Hanumaiah Bandla | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $252,955 |
| 28 | Teresa Davis | Mount Clemens Community Schools | $250,000 |
| 29 | Thomas Martin | West Ottawa Public Schools | $248,393 |
| 30 | Wanda Cook-Robinson | Oakland County Intermediate School District | $247,936 |
| 31 | Kenneth Gutman | Walled Lake Consolidated Schools | $245,956 |
| 32 | Mark Bielang | Portage Public Schools | $243,674 |
| 33 | Travis L. Haney | Treasury | $240,013 |
| 34 | Jack Behar | Treasury | $238,870 |
| 35 | Peter Haines | Ottawa Area Intermediate School District | $238,843 |
| 36 | Daniel J. Quigley | Treasury | $238,760 |
| 37 | Glenn Maleyko | Dearborn Public Schools | $238,725 |
| 38 | Thomas Tenbrink | Jenison Public Schools | $237,546 |
| 39 | Clarence Garner | Grand Blanc Community Schools | $237,270 |
| 40 | Paul Blake | Ferris State University | $235,891 |
| 41 | Peter Provenzano | Oakland Community College | $234,962 |
| 42 | Richard Machesky | Troy City School District | $229,420 |
| 43 | Daniel Behm | Forest Hills Public Schools | $229,416 |
| 44 | Michael Zoerhoff | Kentwood Public Schools | $226,062 |
| 45 | Scott Menzel | Washtenaw Intermediate School District | $224,191 |
| 46 | Monica Merritt | Plymouth-Canton Community School District | $223,744 |
| 47 | Gerald Hill | West Bloomfield Schools | $221,401 |
| 48 | David Campbell | Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency | $220,629 |
| 49 | Christine Haines | Utica Community Schools | $219,176 |
| 50 | Sonia Forbes | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $218,012 |
| 51 | Nicholas Ceglarek | Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District | $217,151 |
| 52 | Terance Lunger | Calhoun County Intermediate School District | $216,074 |
| 53 | Himaja Gummadi | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $215,511 |
| 54 | Ronald Caniff | Kent County Intermediate School District | $214,537 |
| 55 | Gary Niehaus | Grosse Pointe Public Schools | $213,700 |
| 56 | Sunil K. Koneru | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $213,350 |
| 57 | Andrea Oquist | Livonia Public Schools | $212,326 |
| 58 | Manuel Rupe | Central Michigan University | $212,134 |
| 59 | Mark Dziatczak | Birmingham Public Schools | $211,984 |
| 60 | Jeffrey Crouse | Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District | $211,621 |
| 61 | Paul Salah | Huron Valley School District #4F | $210,599 |
| 62 | Deborah Gray | Central Michigan University | $210,323 |
| 63 | Jeanice Swift | Ann Arbor Public Schools | $210,000 |
| 64 | Mary Gallagher | Northville Public Schools | $209,484 |
| 65 | Randy Liepa | Wayne County RESA | $209,482 |
| 66 | Ronald Roberts | Chippewa Valley Schools | $208,138 |
| 67 | Andrew Ingall | Grand Haven Public Schools | $207,894 |
| 68 | Maria Ginopolis | Lake Orion Community School #3 | $206,881 |
| 69 | Brian Davis | Holland Public Schools | $206,034 |
| 70 | Karl Paulson | Lakeview Public Schools | $205,724 |
| 71 | Gregory Pratt | Lowell Area Schools | $204,589 |
| 72 | Timothy Throne | Oxford Area Community Schools | $204,023 |
| 73 | Jason Mellema | Ingham Intermediate School District | $203,500 |
| 74 | Greg Gray | Brighton Area Schools | $203,000 |
| 75 | Dennis McDavid | Berkley School District | $202,017 |
| 76 | Douglas Vanderjagt | Hudsonville Public Schools | $201,080 |
| 77 | Roger Bearup | Grandville Public Schools | $200,013 |
| 78 | Jennifer Yeung | Treasury | $199,981 |
| 79 | Todd Warstler | Treasury | $199,698 |
| 80 | Brian Metcalf | Grand Ledge Public Schools | $199,656 |
| 81 | Victor L. Dominguez | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $199,619 |
| 82 | Peter Woodford | Treasury | $199,138 |
| 83 | Dedrick Martin | Caledonia Community Schools | $199,135 |
| 84 | Patrick Moraniec | Treasury | $198,958 |
| 85 | Woodrow S. Tyler | Treasury | $198,918 |
| 86 | Gary Start | Kalamazoo Public Schools | $197,214 |
| 87 | Robert Herrera | Farmington Public Schools | $197,000 |
| 88 | Steven Matthews | Novi Community School District | $196,601 |
| 89 | Shawn Loving | Schoolcraft Community College | $196,546 |
| 90 | Tanjeen Chowdhury | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $196,297 |
| 91 | Luis Solano | Detroit Public Schools Community District | $195,000 |
| 91 | Iranetta Wright | Detroit Public Schools Community District | $195,000 |
| 93 | Leonard Woodside | Anchor Bay School District | $194,913 |
| 94 | Lisa Webb Sharpe | Lansing Community College | $193,970 |
| 95 | Ronald Gorman | Grand Rapids Public Schools | $193,255 |
| 96 | Janine M. Winters | Civil Service Commission | $192,877 |
| 97 | Elizabeth Argiri | Macomb Community College | $192,665 |
| 98 | David R. Neff | Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | $192,289 |
| 99 | David Schulte | Shiawassee Regional Educational Service District | $191,881 |
| 100 | Cynthia Anderson | Eaton County Intermediate School District | $191,525 |
