Who are the Top 25 highest-paid nonunion employees in Ann Arbor city government?

Posted on Thu, Apr 7, 2011 : 5:59 a.m.

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City Administrator Roger Fraser is the city's highest-paid employee with a base salary of $145,354. AnnArbor.com has filed a FOIA request to find out Fraser's total income for each of the last nine years. He was not willing to provide that information voluntarily.

Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com

There's been a lot of talk lately about the level of compensation provided to union employees in the public sector, but what do the nonunion employees make?

The following is a list of the base salaries for the Top 25 highest-paid nonunion employees in Ann Arbor city government, according to public records obtained by AnnArbor.com.

The records were provided this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The figures given do not include other pay some officials might receive above their base salaries. Note the list also includes Dominick Lanza, who recently resigned from his post as fire chief.

Top 25 nonunion employees

1. Roger Fraser, City Administrator — $145,354
2. Stephen Postema, City Attorney — $141,538
3. Sue McCormick, Public Services Area Administrator — $135,600
4. Barnett Jones, Police Chief and Safety Services Administrator — $126,500
5. Tom Crawford, Chief Financial Officer — $125,500
6. Robyn Wilkerson, Human Resources and Labor Relations Director — $124,000
7. Abigail Elias, Chief Assistant City Attorney — $117,500
8. Sumedh Bahl, Community Services Area Administrator — $115,000
9. Karen Lancaster, Accounting Services Manager — $112,460
10. Dan Rainey, Information Technology Director — $111,785
11. Homayoon Pirooz, Project Management Unit Manager — $110,255
12. David Petrak, City Assessor — $109,535
13. Dominick Lanza, Fire Chief — $108,000
14. Earl Kenzie, Wastewater Treatment Plant Manager — $98,780
15. Mary Fales, Senior Assistant City Attorney — $97,500
16. Keith Zeisloft, Court Administrator — $96,911
17. Nancy Niemela, Senior Assistant City Attorney — $96,000
18. Nancy Walker, Pension System Executive Director — $95,000
19. Susan Pollay, DDA Executive Director — $94,689
20. Eli Cooper, Transportation Program Manager — $94,000
21. Bob West, Senior Assistant City Attorney — $94,000
22. Craig Hupy, Systems Planning Manager — $93,855
23. Richard Martonchik, HR Services Partner — $92,700
24. Cresson Slotten, Civil Engineer — $92,445
25. Lisa Wondrash, Communications Unit Manager — $91,700

Other top earners

AnnArbor.com also obtained a searchable PDF showing all city employees' salaries as of June 2010. Click here to download it.

The document shows the salaries of 738 people totaled $46.2 million, or $62,587 on average. Without duplicating anyone on the previous list, the following is a list of other city employees making at least $85,000 as of last June, some of them union and some of them nonunion.

Note that the figures include only base salary and not other forms of pay. Overtime across all city departments in fiscal year 2009-10 totaled more than $2.7 million.

  • Angella Abrams, Police Lieutenant — $88,982
  • Greg Bazick, Deputy Police Chief — $109,366
  • Joshua Baron, Senior Applications Specialist — $85,000
  • Myron Blackwell, Police Lieutenant — $88,982
  • Kenneth Bogan, Senior Financial Specialist — $89,155
  • Renee Bush, Police Lieutenant — $88,982
  • Bob Cariano, Safety Manager — $85,260
  • Kevin Eyer, IT Senior Applications Specialist — $85,480
  • Russell Hanshue, Applications Delivery Manager — $90,000
  • Matt Horning, City Treasurer — $87,100
  • Matt Kulhanek, Fleet and Facilities Manager — $90,930
  • Kristen Larcom, Senior Assistant City Attorney — $90,500
  • Kevin McDonald, Senior Assistant City Attorney — $88,000
  • Kathleen McMahon, IT Project Delivery Manager — $90,000
  • Joe Morehouse, DDA Deputy Director — $86,335
  • Michael Nearing, Civil Engineer — $85,605
  • Margaret Novak, Housing Commission Director — $88,000
  • Ramesh Peddeti, IT Senior Applications Specialist — $86,615
  • Wendy Rampson, Planning Manager — $90,000
  • Phil Ristenbatt, IT Senior Applications Specialist — $88,900
  • Marlene Robinson, IT Project Delivery Manager — $89,865
  • Elizabeth Rolla, Civil Engineer — $85,230
  • Larry Sanford, Assistant Water Treatment Plant Manager — $89,130
  • John Seto, Deputy Chief — $108,264
  • Leszek Sipowski, Civil Engineer — $85,340
  • Colin Smith, Parks and Recreation Manager — $88,000
  • Mark St. Amour, Police Lieutenant — $88,982
  • Mary Ann Tremaine, Police Lieutenant — $88,982
  • Wendy Welser, Customer Service Manager — $89,300
  • Ralph Welton Jr., Chief Development Officer — $86,000

Ryan J. Stanton covers government and politics for AnnArbor.com. Reach him at ryanstanton@annarbor.com or 734-623-2529. You also can follow him on Twitter or subscribe to AnnArbor.com's e-mail newsletters.

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