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Sandy Kester earned $88,861 in 2019, 4.6 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Wayne County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Curtis Ivery's compensation of $484,037 was the most as a public employee in Wayne County in 2019.

The data was gathered by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit research and educational institute.

Rank	Employee	Employer	2019 amount earned	2018 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Curtis Ivery	Wayne County Community College	$484,037	$455,214	6.3%
2	Nikolai Vitti	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$306,346	$294,999	3.8%
3	Glenn Maleyko	Dearborn Public Schools	$233,151	$227,317	2.6%
4	Monica Merritt	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$219,375	$216,687	1.2%
5	Andrea Oquist	Livonia Public Schools	$208,600	$203,992	2.3%
6	Randy Liepa	Wayne County RESA	$206,921	$203,362	1.8%
7	Gary Niehaus	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$204,000	$199,000	2.5%
8	Mary Gallagher	Northville Public Schools	$199,208	$200,356	-0.6%
9	Shawn Loving	Schoolcraft Community College	$195,939	$190,554	2.8%
10	Iranetta Wright	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$195,000	$182,692	6.7%
10	Luis Solano	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$195,000	$183,750	6.1%
12	Alexander Thomson	Schoolcraft Community College	$191,726	$187,095	2.5%
13	Cheryl Hagen	Schoolcraft Community College	$186,282	$184,438	1%
14	Jenice Mitchell Ford	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$184,999	$49,807	271.4%
15	Steven Ezikian	Wayne County RESA	$184,105	$180,939	1.7%
16	Shelley Holt	Wayne-Westland Community Schools	$182,750	$144,943	26.1%
17	Jeremy Vidito	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$180,000	$166,093	8.4%
17	Alycia Meriweather	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$180,000	$180,865	-0.5%
19	Kimberly Soranno-Bond	Melvindale-Northern Allen Park School District	$179,448	$176,650	1.6%
20	Derrick Coleman	River Rouge Public School	$178,760	$172,600	3.6%
21	Carole Sloan	Henry Ford College	$176,796	$174,970	1%
22	Cheryl Hawkins	Schoolcraft Community College	$176,497	$167,456	5.4%
23	G. Kevin	Henry Ford College	$175,692	$162,042	8.4%
24	Gary McIlroy	Henry Ford College	$173,727	$173,314	0.2%
25	Gwendolyn Pringle	Henry Ford College	$173,014	$172,614	0.2%
26	Royetta Ealba	Henry Ford College	$170,005	$173,563	-2.1%
27	Janice Gilliland	Henry Ford College	$169,845	$148,540	14.3%
28	Elizabeth Cutrona	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$169,038	$139,423	21.2%
29	Christian Nwamba	Wayne County Community College	$169,004	$159,325	6.1%
30	Helen Ditouras	Schoolcraft Community College	$168,972	$167,879	0.7%
31	Kimberly Bland	Detroit Edison Public School Academy	$167,548	$164,219	2%
32	Brian Galdes	South Redford School District	$166,504	$153,250	8.6%
33	Anthony Conti	Henry Ford College	$166,260	$168,507	-1.3%
34	Maureen Webster	Henry Ford College	$165,354	$149,241	10.8%
35	Patricia Lanzon	Henry Ford College	$164,309	$153,308	7.2%
36	Kristen Howard	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$163,076	$140,000	16.5%
37	Curtis Greene	Wayne County Community College	$161,189	$143,408	12.4%
38	Michael Bender	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$160,650	$158,100	1.6%
39	Beth Gonzalez	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$160,000	$135,384	18.2%
40	Kalvin Harvell	Henry Ford College	$158,886	$163,501	-2.8%
41	Deon Rollins	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$158,319	$165,565	-4.4%
42	Catherine Cost	Wyandotte Public Schools	$158,250	$145,000	9.1%
43	Michael Zopf	Northville Public Schools	$157,945	$158,284	-0.2%
44	Laurine Van Valkenburg	Crestwood School District	$157,805	$152,024	3.8%
45	Bradley Stetson	Schoolcraft Community College	$157,437	$147,863	6.5%
46	Lisa Jackson	Schoolcraft Community College	$157,368	$146,082	7.7%
47	Imad Nouri	Henry Ford College	$156,488	$134,719	16.2%
48	Mark Haight	Schoolcraft Community College	$156,029	$154,706	0.9%
49	Robert Leadley	Schoolcraft Community College	$155,976	$146,842	6.2%
50	Bonnie Jobe	Henry Ford College	$155,641	$160,473	-3%
51	Adnan Salhi	Henry Ford College	$155,032	$148,034	4.7%
52	Phyllis Hurks-Hill	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$155,000	$155,000	0%
53	Holly Austin	Schoolcraft Community College	$154,977	$149,906	3.4%
54	Craig Priskorn	Henry Ford College	$154,579	$145,701	6.1%
55	Michael Dean	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$154,455	$151,255	2.1%
56	Corinne Asher	Henry Ford College	$153,870	$153,672	0.1%
57	David Rodgers	Northville Public Schools	$153,378	$153,805	-0.3%
58	Coley McLean	Schoolcraft Community College	$153,209	$147,326	4%
59	Leo Yaros	Henry Ford College	$152,702	$141,302	8.1%
60	Susan McGraw	Henry Ford College	$152,510	$147,100	3.7%
61	Mark Greathead	Woodhaven-Brownstown School District	$151,823	$145,326	4.5%
62	Andrea Lazarski	Schoolcraft Community College	$151,522	$152,159	-0.4%
63	Diana Baran	Henry Ford College	$151,467	$163,633	-7.4%
64	Steven Murrell	Henry Ford College	$150,818	$150,044	0.5%
65	Felicia Venable	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$150,769	$159,230	-5.3%
66	Shannon Peterson	Dearborn Public Schools	$150,729	$138,792	8.6%
67	D. Todd	Henry Ford College	$150,457	$152,855	-1.6%
68	Ella Davis	Wayne County Community College	$150,454	$154,173	-2.4%
69	Meena Sharma	Henry Ford College	$150,362	$150,018	0.2%
70	Joseph Decker	Schoolcraft Community College	$150,235	$149,958	0.2%
71	Chrystal Wilson	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$150,000	$141,538	6%
72	Gerard Mellnick	Schoolcraft Community College	$149,675	$145,559	2.8%
73	Bernadette Kakooza	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$149,596	$139,499	7.2%
74	Diane Smith	Henry Ford College	$149,276	$156,284	-4.5%
75	Stanley Moore	Henry Ford College	$149,274	$143,386	4.1%
76	Deborah Vendittelli	Schoolcraft Community College	$149,260	$143,028	4.4%
77	Adam Hazlett	Henry Ford College	$149,088	$165,700	-10%
78	Lisa Abbey	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$148,828	$145,305	2.4%
79	Sarena Conaway	Redford-Union School District #1	$148,824	$135,685	9.7%
80	Nasser Beidoun	Henry Ford College	$148,381	$148,248	0.1%
81	Maysam Alie-Bazzi	Dearborn Public Schools	$148,229	$136,292	8.8%
82	Josha Talison	Ecorse Public Schools	$148,000	$140,630	5.2%
83	Stewart Vining	Henry Ford College	$147,708	$138,885	6.4%
84	Audrone Mingela	Schoolcraft Community College	$147,554	$141,252	4.5%
85	Susan Ontko	Schoolcraft Community College	$146,997	$145,211	1.2%
86	Michael Daher	Henry Ford College	$146,872	$148,627	-1.2%
87	Elaine Saneske	Henry Ford College	$146,860	$140,354	4.6%
88	Jill Chochol	Dearborn Public Schools	$146,407	$135,104	8.4%
89	Eric Gackenbach	Henry Ford College	$146,286	$160,043	-8.6%
90	Warren Yeakel	Henry Ford College	$146,092	$141,797	3%
91	Jared Boyd	Henry Ford College	$145,995	$151,697	-3.8%
92	Paul Shepich	Clarenceville School District	$145,159	$136,000	6.7%
93	Laura Yeakel	Henry Ford College	$145,131	$143,205	1.3%
94	Thomas Wall	Dearborn Public Schools	$145,041	$137,366	5.6%
95	Mark Sherwood	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$144,999	$118,788	22.1%
95	Carol Rodriguez	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$144,999	$144,999	0%
95	Sharlonda Buckman	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$144,999	$125,480	15.6%
98	Anthony Perry	Henry Ford College	$144,753	$136,048	6.4%
99	Terry DangerfieldJr.	Lincoln Park Public Schools	$144,004	$137,000	5.1%
100	Steven Archibald	Livonia Public Schools	$143,993	$141,102	2%