Pontiac Times

Salamah Sulaiman earned $53,726 in 2018, 17 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Oakland County.

Timothy Meyer's compensation of $270,000 was the most as a public employee in Oakland County in 2018.

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

Rank	Employee	Employer	2018 amount earned	2017 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Timothy Meyer	Oakland Community College	270,000	265,000	1.9%
2	Wanda Cook-Robinson	Oakland County Intermediate School District	243,358	250,279	-2.8%
3	Kenneth Gutman	Walled Lake Consolidated School	237,716	232,439	2.3%
4	Robert Shaner	Rochester Community Schools	229,383	218,087	5.2%
5	Robert Glass	Bloomfield Hills School District	224,040	227,769	-1.6%
6	Peter Provenzano	Oakland Community College	222,498	182,003	22.2%
7	Daniel Nerad	Birmingham Public Schools	217,644	218,563	-0.4%
8	Robert Moore	Oakland County Intermediate School District	211,736	216,268	-2.1%
9	Gerald Hill	West Bloomfield Schools	208,554	210,057	-0.7%
10	Melissa Baker	South Lyon Community Schools	197,832	195,757	1.1%
11	Richard Machesky	Troy City School District	197,126	189,756	3.9%
12	Keith Wunderlich	Waterford School District	194,298	190,674	1.9%
13	Steven Matthews	Novi Community School District	190,592	187,775	1.5%
14	Derrick Lopez	Southfield Public Schools	186,597	143,422	30.1%
15	Dennis McDavid	Berkley School District	186,179	190,180	-2.1%
16	Timothy Throne	Oxford Area Community School	182,000	175,000	4%
17	Tammy Evans	Oakland County Intermediate School District	178,139	181,146	-1.7%
18	Sarah Young	Troy City School District	178,063	67,081	165.4%
19	Dale Steen	Lamphere Public Schools	172,560	171,002	0.9%
20	Michael Yocum	Oakland County Intermediate School District	171,035	173,530	-1.4%
21	Matthew Outlaw	Brandon School District	168,139	157,323	6.9%
22	Kelley Williams	Pontiac City School District	167,493	162,507	3.1%
23	Stephen Speck	Madison District Public Schools	166,500	165,653	0.5%
24	Tahir Khan	Oakland Community College	163,194	164,813	-1%
25	Kerry Smith	Oakland Community College	163,129	151,535	7.7%
26	Godson Nasari	Oakland Community College	163,088	161,375	1.1%
27	Mark Stevenson	Oakland Community College	162,656	153,914	5.7%
28	David Stoddard	Oakland Community College	162,170	162,035	0.1%
29	Lawrence Gallagher	Berkley School District	159,424	161,750	-1.4%
30	Debra Fragomeni	Rochester Community Schools	157,581	154,277	2.1%
31	Heidi Mercer	Lake Orion Community School #3	157,236	166,853	-5.8%
32	Charles Martin	Oakland Community College	157,149	150,513	4.4%
33	Michelle Schurman	Madison District Public Schools	157,100	144,753	8.5%
34	Elizabeth Davis	Rochester Community Schools	156,688	153,433	2.1%
35	Mark Dziatczak	Troy City School District	156,635	155,200	0.9%
36	John Fitzgerald	Lake Orion Community School #3	156,211	152,193	2.6%
37	Sandra Bradley	Oakland Community College	156,073	153,526	1.7%
38	Michael Vollbach	Oakland Community College	154,428	152,002	1.6%
39	Margaret Lambert	Oakland Community College	154,377	145,012	6.5%
40	Anthony Racka	Oakland Community College	154,274	152,168	1.4%
41	Rachel Guinn	Birmingham Public Schools	153,067	149,003	2.7%
42	Judith Matteson	Oakland Community College	152,789	146,757	4.1%
43	Daveda Colbert	Oak Park School District	152,750	152,950	-0.1%
44	Embekka Thompson	Birmingham Public Schools	152,507	121,826	25.2%
45	James Schwarz	Avondale School District	152,000	150,000	1.3%
46	Jasen Witt	Oakland Community College	151,766	140,000	8.4%
47	Angel Abdulahad	Madison District Public Schools	151,518	134,966	12.3%
48	Kent Aeschliman	Oakland Community College	150,899	151,586	-0.5%
49	Michael Behrmann	Rochester Community Schools	149,500	146,407	2.1%
50	Peter Anderson	Oakland Community College	149,413	145,776	2.5%
51	Anne Evans	Rochester Community Schools	149,300	146,007	2.3%
52	Jordan Harris	Troy City School District	149,275	149,931	-0.4%
53	Rick West	Troy City School District	149,275	148,400	0.6%
54	Thomas Zakrzewski	Oakland Community College	149,194	149,395	-0.1%
55	Christina Kostiuk	Bloomfield Hills School District	149,182	154,727	-3.6%
56	Kristine Griffor	Troy City School District	149,125	142,950	4.3%
57	Mark Hopkins	Oakland Community College	149,061	151,198	-1.4%
58	Saul Grunfeld	Oakland Community College	148,247	123,488	20%
59	Ricky Arnett	Lake Orion Community School #3	148,096	141,306	4.8%
60	Martin Orlowski	Oakland Community College	147,692	146,244	1%
61	Kyle Hall	Birmingham Public Schools	147,663	124,144	18.9%
62	Renee Muro	Oakland Community College	147,450	145,328	1.5%
63	Deborah Piesz	Birmingham Public Schools	146,948	147,193	-0.2%
64	Carrie Lawler	Rochester Community Schools	146,785	143,692	2.2%
65	R. Kangas	Oakland Community College	146,421	143,050	2.4%
66	Katherine Smith	Farmington Public Schools	146,373	128,963	13.5%
67	Robert Featherstone	Oakland Community College	146,290	125,507	16.6%
68	Rosalind Reaves	Oakland Community College	146,193	140,604	4%
69	Joseph Hoffman	Birmingham Public Schools	146,118	145,193	0.6%
70	Robert Long	Oakland Community College	145,964	133,532	9.3%
71	John Tavernier	Huron Valley School Dist #4F	145,710	126,161	15.5%
72	Patrick Watson	West Bloomfield Schools	145,355	148,646	-2.2%
73	Barbara Konopka	Oakland Community College	145,085	145,421	-0.2%
74	Krishna Stilianos	Oakland Community College	144,723	134,194	7.8%
75	Aaron Johnson	Farmington Public Schools	144,667	129,476	11.7%
76	Karen Olex	Oakland County Intermediate School District	144,399	147,464	-2.1%
77	Paul Spoor	Oakland County Intermediate School District	144,399	146,792	-1.6%
78	James Hallemann	Oakland Community College	144,320	132,617	8.8%
79	Amy Kruppe	Hazel Park Public Schools	143,875	142,099	1.2%
80	Patrick Dillon	Lamphere Public Schools	143,765	141,583	1.5%
81	Charles Kurzer	Oakland Community College	143,669	144,189	-0.4%
82	Jeffrey Farrah	Oakland Community College	143,284	131,899	8.6%
83	Scott Lindberg	Huron Valley School Dist #4F	143,157	129,862	10.2%
84	Kathryn Dankovich	Southfield Public Schools	142,962	140,360	1.9%
85	Leonard Cole	Oakland Community College	142,852	138,482	3.2%
86	Teri Les	Walled Lake Consolidated School	142,775	138,052	3.4%
87	Jeffrey Eichold	Oakland Community College	142,707	137,945	3.5%
88	Kenneth Weaver	Oxford Area Community School	142,700	142,000	0.5%
89	Sherry McMillan	Oakland County Intermediate School District	142,456	143,953	-1%
90	Bryan Dubin	Oakland Community College	142,379	138,803	2.6%
91	Kenneth Schmidt	Waterford School District	142,236	135,332	5.1%
92	Lisa Kudwa	South Lyon Community Schools	142,055	140,565	1.1%
93	Nancy Latowski	Oxford Area Community School	142,000	137,000	3.6%
94	Nadine Milostan	Waterford School District	142,000	140,124	1.3%
95	Monique Beels	Clawson City School District	141,800	144,300	-1.7%
96	Jonathan Manier	Farmington Public Schools	141,432	131,228	7.8%
97	Vickie Hall	Southfield Public Schools	141,362	84,258	67.8%
98	Michelle Saunders	Oakland County Intermediate School District	140,931	141,184	-0.2%
99	Robert Durecka	Bloomfield Hills School District	140,604	146,011	-3.7%
100	Lynne Gibson	Bloomfield Hills School District	140,604	145,729	-3.5%