Pontiac Times

Lisa Oja earned $66,051 working for Lake Orion Community School #3 in 2018, putting the employee in the 76th percentile in pay among Michigan public employees.

The highest paid public employee in Michigan was Curtis Ivery, who earned $455,215 at 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.

Rank	Employee	Employer	Annual Salary
1	Curtis Ivery	Wayne County Community College	$455,215
2	Nikolai Vitti	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$295,000
3	Lisa Hagel	Genesee County Intermediate School District	$292,529
4	Timothy Meyer	Oakland Community College	$270,000
5	Michael Rice	Kalamazoo Public Schools	$266,457
6	Teresa Weatherall Neal	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$265,791
7	Sarah Miller	Utica Community Schools	$263,498
8	James Sawyer	Macomb Community College	$261,001
9	Sherman Ostrander	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$257,531
10	Mary Goodnow	Delta College	$247,172
11	Michael Devault	Macomb Intermediate School District	$246,173
12	Michael Shibler	Rockford Public Schools	$244,473
13	Wanda Cook-Robinson	Oakland County Intermediate School District	$243,359
14	Kenneth Gutman	Walled Lake Consolidated School	$237,716
15	Mark Bielang	Portage Public Schools	$233,650
16	Thomas Martin	West Ottawa Public Schools	$231,381
17	Paul Blake	Ferris State University	$230,104
18	Ellen Horsch	Michigan Technological University	$229,800
19	Robert Shaner	Rochester Community Schools	$229,384
20	Glenn Maleyko	Dearborn Public Schools	$227,318
21	Rose Bellanca	Washtenaw Community College	$226,095
22	Robert Glass	Bloomfield Hills School District	$224,041
23	Thomas Tenbrink	Jenison Public Schools	$223,910
24	Peter Haines	Ottawa Area Intermediate School District	$222,895
25	Peter Provenzano	Oakland Community College	$222,499
26	Christine Haines	Utica Community Schools	$219,176
27	Cameron Brunet-Koch	North Central Michigan College	$217,800
28	Daniel Nerad	Birmingham Public Schools	$217,644
29	Monica Merritt	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$216,688
30	Brian Metcalf	Grand Ledge Public Schools	$214,706
31	Michael Zoerhoff	Kentwood Public Schools	$213,555
32	Daniel Behm	Forest Hills Public Schools	$213,130
33	Robert Moore	Oakland County Intermediate School District	$211,737
34	Kimberly Mitchell	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$209,095
35	Gerald Hill	West Bloomfield Schools	$208,555
36	Manuel Rupe	Central Michigan University	$207,999
37	Marilyn Schlack	Kalamazoo Valley Community College	$207,983
38	Sara Shubel	East Grand Rapids Public Schools	$207,861
39	Ronald Caniff	Kent County Intermediate School District	$207,018
40	Cassandra Washington	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$206,351
41	Scott Menzel	Washtenaw Intermediate School District	$205,342
42	Michael Pickard	Kentwood Public Schools	$205,126
43	Andrea Oquist	Livonia Public Schools	$203,993
44	Randy Liepa	Wayne County RESA	$203,363
45	Greg Gray	Brighton Area Schools	$203,000
46	David Campbell	Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency	$202,263
47	Teresa Davis	Mount Clemens Community Schools	$202,199
48	Ronald Roberts	Chippewa Valley Schools	$201,504
49	Scott Koenigsknecht	Ingham Intermediate School District	$201,164
50	Nicholas Ceglarek	Hudsonville Public Schools	$200,656
51	Justin Jennings	Muskegon City Public Schools	$200,581
52	Mary Gallagher	Northville Public Schools	$200,357
53	Jeanice Swift	Ann Arbor Public Schools	$200,000
54	Gregory Pratt	Lowell Area Schools	$199,418
55	Gary Niehaus	Grosse Pointe Public Schools	$199,000
56	Terance Lunger	Calhoun County Intermediate School District	$198,757
57	Melissa Baker	South Lyon Community Schools	$197,833
58	Frank Conner	Grand Rapids Community College	$197,783
59	Richard Machesky	Troy City School District	$197,127
60	Deborah Gray	Central Michigan University	$196,882
61	George Heitsch	Farmington Public Schools	$196,501
62	Jeffrey Crouse	Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District	$196,095
63	Keith Wunderlich	Waterford School District	$194,299
64	James Cain	Port Huron Area Schools	$192,000
65	Evan Hordyk	Kentwood Public Schools	$191,001
66	Steven Matthews	Novi Community School District	$190,592
67	Shawn Loving	Schoolcraft Community College	$190,555
68	Matthew Olson	Benzie County Central Schools	$190,064
69	Yvonne Caamal Canul	Lansing Public Schools	$190,000
70	Clarence Garner	Grand Blanc Community Schools	$189,270
71	Daniel Takens	Byron Center Public Schools	$189,263
72	Andrew Ingall	Grand Haven Public Schools	$188,955
73	Christopher Smith	Utica Community Schools	$188,278
74	Alexander Thomson	Schoolcraft Community College	$187,096
75	Maria Gistinger	Brighton Area Schools	$186,858
76	Derrick Lopez	Southfield Public Schools	$186,598
77	Robert Livernois	Warren Consolidated Schools	$186,425
78	Dennis McDavid	Berkley School District	$186,180
79	Michael Collins	Kalamazoo Valley Community College	$185,636
80	Thomas Reeder	Wyoming Public Schools	$185,444
81	Cheryl Hagen	Schoolcraft Community College	$184,439
82	Eric Lieske	Davison Community Schools	$184,098
83	Leonard Woodside	Anchor Bay School District	$183,832
84	Luis Solano	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$183,750
85	Iranetta Wright	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$182,693
86	Erik Edoff	L'Anse Creuse Public Schools	$182,400
87	Roberta Teahen	Ferris State University	$182,078
88	Stuart Baker	Schoolcraft Community College	$182,058
89	Timothy Throne	Oxford Area Community School	$182,000
90	Karl Paulson	Lakeview Public Schools	$181,224
91	Matthew Wandrie	Lapeer Public Schools	$181,000
92	Steven Ezikian	Wayne County RESA	$180,940
93	Alycia Meriweather	Detroit Public Schools Community District	$180,866
94	John Kment	Roseville Community Schools	$180,574
95	Cynthia Anderson	Eaton County Intermediate School District	$180,001
96	James Rodriguez	Caledonia Community Schools	$179,900
97	John Severson	Muskegon Area Intermediate School District	$179,876
98	Kevin Ivers	Berrien Regional Education Service Agency	$179,649
99	Elizabeth Argiri	Macomb Community College	$179,366
100	Pamela Anstey	Plymouth-Canton Community School District	$179,200