We missed the Kilpatrick Gravy Train......

These last several months, I kept hearing about the so called "Friends and Family Plan" of Mayor Kilpatrick's. After seeing in print Saturday how much those folks made as city employees, I now understand why some city employees are pissed off. I just did not know that those folks were doing so well. There are going to be some mad folks downtown today.....

"2002-2007: Who got the

Biggest Raises?"

Detroit Free Press story May 10, 2008
Sources: City of Detroit, research by Free Press staff writers M.L. ELRICK and KRISTI TANNER

This chart lists all of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's appointees who have served from 2002 through July 2007, the latest period for which the city provided salary information. Appointees with close connections to the mayor or former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty have tended to receive higher salaries and raises than other mayoral appointees. Most of those who received significant raises assumed new responsibilities or were promoted.

Name	'02 salary	'07 salary	% inc.
Kwame Kilpatrick	$176,000	$176,000	0%
Christine Beatty	$140,001	$142,813	2%

Note: Christine Beatty and Derrick Miller did not receive a significant salary
increase because they were hired at top salary.

Friends and family

Name	'02 salary	'07 salary	% inc.
April Edgar	$38,000	$70,500	86%
Ajene Evans	$32,500	$57,500	77%
Lawrence Hemingway	$65,000	$112,499	73%
Medina Abdun-Noor	$62,500	$100,001	60%
Jacquelyn Watts	$48,500	$76,810	58%
DeDan Milton	$42,500	$66,810	57%
Kandia Milton	$65,500	$91,300	39%
Akua Bragg-Porter	$57,500	$79,999	39%
Elizabeth Benson	$79,704	$105,500	32%
Beverlyn Hilton	$57,500	$75,001	30%
Nneka Cheeks	$50,500	$62,025	23%
Chantel Clemons	$57,500	$70,000	22%
Ray Cheeks	$89,000	$93,503	5%
Alice Beatty	$43,500	$44,814	3%
Sandra Ramsey	$85,000	$86,700	2%
Derrick Miller	$140,001	$142,813	2%

Average '02 salary: $67,924

Average '07 salary: $86,976

Other mayoral appointees

Name	'02 salary	'07 salary	% inc.
Latonya Hardiman	$32,500	$85,501	163%
Tanjia Wilkerson	$33,500	$60,500	81%
Rosalind Worthy	$34,522	$52,500	52%
Margaret Ceballos	$20,500	$27,549	34%
Crystal Turner	$26,000	$34,145	31%
Anthony Boyer	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Shelia Cusic	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Johnnie McElvene	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Barbara Moore	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Deloris Palmore	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Iva Patterson	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Barbara Toney	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Vernita Wardlow	$30,200	$32,600	8%
Kreed Lile	$32,500	$34,145	5%
Ecole White	$32,500	$34,145	5%
Carl Ramsey	$57,500	$59,237	3%
Joycel Malcolmcarr	$45,000	$45,900	2%

Average '02 salary: $32,713

Average '07 salary: $40,848