Eastern Wayne Today

Veronica Lassen made $81,312 in 2018 working as a public employee in Wayne County, placing the worker in the 90th percentile of pay for Michigan public employees.

Veronica Lassen works for Hamtramck Public Schools. The highest paid public employee in Wayne County is Curtis Ivery who works for Wayne County Community College.

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

Top 100 highest paid public employees of Wayne County in 2018

Rank	Employee Name	Employer	Amount Earned
1	Curtis Ivery	Wayne County Community College	$455,214
2	Nikolai Vitti	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$295,000
3	Glenn Maleyko	Dearborn Public Schools	$227,318
4	Monica Merritt	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$216,688
5	Kimberly Mitchell	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$209,094
6	Cassandra Washington	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$206,351
7	Andrea Oquist	Livonia Public Schools	$203,993
8	Randy Liepa	Wayne County RESA	$203,363
9	Mary Gallagher	Northville Public Schools	$200,356
10	Gary Niehaus	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$199,000
11	Shawn Loving	Schoolcraft Community College	$190,555
12	Alexander Thomson	Schoolcraft Community College	$187,096
13	Cheryl Hagen	Schoolcraft Community College	$184,438
14	Luis Solano	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$183,750
15	Iranetta Wright	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$182,692
16	Stuart Baker	Schoolcraft Community College	$182,057
17	Steven Ezikian	Wayne County RESA	$180,939
18	Alycia Meriweather	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$180,865
19	Pamela Anstey	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$179,200
20	John Carroll	Henry Ford College	$177,954
21	Kimberly Soranno-Bond	Melvindale-Northern Allen Park School District	$176,650
22	Carole Sloan	Henry Ford College	$174,971
23	Nickolas Butkevich	Schoolcraft Community College	$173,583
24	Royetta Ealba	Henry Ford College	$173,564
25	Gary McIlroy	Henry Ford College	$173,314
26	Gwendolyn Pringle	Henry Ford College	$172,615
27	Derrick Coleman	River Rouge Public School	$172,600
28	Anthony Conti	Henry Ford College	$168,508
29	Edward Kavanaugh	Schoolcraft Community College	$168,366
30	Helen Ditouras	Schoolcraft Community College	$167,880
31	Cheryl Hawkins	Schoolcraft Community College	$167,456
32	Jeremy Vidito	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$166,093
33	Adam Hazlett	Henry Ford College	$165,701
34	Deon Rollins	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$165,566
35	Kevin Ridge	Henry Ford College	$165,095
36	Kimberly Bland	Detroit Edison Public School Academy	$164,219
37	Diana Baran	Henry Ford College	$163,633
38	Kalvin Harvell	Henry Ford College	$163,502
39	Angela Johnson	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$163,496
40	G. Kevin Dewey	Henry Ford College	$162,043
41	Jody Scheller	Schoolcraft Community College	$161,820
42	Bonnie Jobe	Henry Ford College	$160,473
43	Eric Gackenbach	Henry Ford College	$160,043
44	Sue Carnell	Westwood Community Schools	$159,941
45	Christian Nwamba	Wayne County Community College	$159,325
46	Felicia Venable	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$159,231
47	Michael Zopf	Northville Public Schools	$158,284
48	Michael Bender	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$158,100
49	Paul Salah	Wayne County RESA	$157,255
50	Diane Smith	Henry Ford College	$156,285
51	Phyllis Hurks-Hill	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$155,000
52	Diane O'Connell	Schoolcraft Community College	$154,863
53	Mark Haight	Schoolcraft Community College	$154,707
54	Ella Davis	Wayne County Community College	$154,173
55	David Rodgers	Northville Public Schools	$153,806
56	Corinne Asher	Henry Ford College	$153,673
57	Patricia Lanzon	Henry Ford College	$153,308
58	Brian Galdes	South Redford School District	$153,251
59	Alicia Brown	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$153,122
60	D. Todd Whitaker	Henry Ford College	$152,855
61	Andrea Lazarski	Schoolcraft Community College	$152,160
62	Laurine Van Valkenburg	Crestwood School District	$152,025
63	Jared Boyd	Henry Ford College	$151,698
64	Michael Dean	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$151,255
65	Becky Chadwick	Henry Ford College	$150,769
66	Sandra Kerr	Schoolcraft Community College	$150,198
67	Steven Murrell	Henry Ford College	$150,044
68	Meena Sharma	Henry Ford College	$150,019
69	Joseph Decker	Schoolcraft Community College	$149,958
70	Holly Austin	Schoolcraft Community College	$149,906
71	Andrea Ford-Ayler	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$149,500
72	Maureen Webster	Henry Ford College	$149,241
73	Michael Daher	Henry Ford College	$148,627
74	Janice Gilliland	Henry Ford College	$148,541
75	Nasser Beidoun	Henry Ford College	$148,248
76	Jacqueline Robinson	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$148,189
77	Deborah Zopf	Henry Ford College	$148,139
78	Adnan Salhi	Henry Ford College	$148,034
79	Bradley Stetson	Schoolcraft Community College	$147,864
80	Kevin Culler	Henry Ford College	$147,783
81	Coley McLean	Schoolcraft Community College	$147,326
82	Susan McGraw	Henry Ford College	$147,101
83	Robert Leadley	Schoolcraft Community College	$146,843
84	Lisa Jackson	Schoolcraft Community College	$146,082
85	Craig Priskorn	Henry Ford College	$145,701
86	Gerard Mellnick	Schoolcraft Community College	$145,560
87	Delores Brown	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$145,385
88	Mark Greathead	Woodhaven-Brownstown School District	$145,326
89	Lisa Abbey	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$145,305
90	Susan Ontko	Schoolcraft Community College	$145,212
91	Catherine Cost	Wyandotte Public Schools	$145,000
92	Carol Rodriguez	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$145,000
93	Shelley Holt	Wayne-Westland Community Schools	$144,943
94	Cynthia Glass	Henry Ford College	$144,938
95	David Cunningham	Henry Ford College	$144,817
96	Linda Brandt	Henry Ford College	$144,808
97	Michelle Randall	Schoolcraft Community College	$144,665
98	Debra Szymanski	Henry Ford College	$144,482
99	Yolanda Smith	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$144,454
100	Holly Diamond	Henry Ford College	$143,927