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Jail guards among highest paid Wayne County employees
By detroitnews.com- Joel Kurth
Published: 08/12/2014

Detroit— Wayne County jail guards are doubling and tripling their salaries through overtime, making them some of the cash-strapped county’s best-paid employees, a Detroit News investigation has found.

Last year, 112 of the county’s 380 corporals made more than $100,000 each. Forty made more than the $116,000 salary of their boss, Sheriff Benny Napoleon, for a job that requires special training but no college degree.

Besides doctors, the highest-paid county employee in the Metro area last year was a Wayne County Sheriff’s corporal who made $182,475, including $128,580 in overtime pay, according to salary records obtained by The News through the Freedom of Information Act.

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