Ryan Murphy earns $4,500 during 2020 working at Virtual Learning Academy Of St. Clair

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By Thumb Reporter

Sep 24, 2021

Ryan Murphy with Virtual Learning Academy Of St. Clair ranks in the eighth percentile in pay as a public Michigan employee by earning $4,500 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