FLINT, MI-- Sixteen Flint city workers received six-figure salaries, with 75 percent of those employees doubling their base salaries working overtime last year, salary records show.

The 16 employees in the six-figure club made up 1.5 percent of the city’s workforce but earned 6.2 percent of the wages grossed in 2018, according to a MLive-Flint Journal analysis. The number of six-figure earners eight years ago was nine.

Taking home more than $100,000 were Flint city administrators, water treatment plant and water pollution control workers and police officers, according to records received via the Freedom of Information Act. The top 35 city earners earned more than $90,000 each and made up 3.3 percent of the city’s workforce. The city spent $29.4 million in employee wages and salaries last year.

Overall, 125 workers --about 11.9 percent of the city’s workforce -- grossed more than $70,000 each. This doesn’t include health insurance or other benefits. The city employed 1,049 people last year and 72 percent of those workers made $50,000 or less. The average median household income of a Flint resident between 2013 and 2017 was $26,330 annually, according to the U.S. Census.

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The city’s top three earners were the chief financial officer, Hughey Newsome, with a $133,920.00 annual salary, the director of public works, Rob Bincsik, with a $128,3444 annual salary and the water pollution control supervisor, Donald Lewis, with $145,151.

Only four of the city’s highest earners were budgeted for six-figure salaries while the remaining joined the club due to overtime-pay. This list includes police officers, water plant and water pollution control workers and street maintenance workers.

Base salaries for water pollution control supervisors, operators and workers range between $60,000 and $75,000, but overtime nearly doubled their salaries. Lewis had a budgeted base salary of $75,994 but grossed $145,151 last year.

Two water pollution control foreman operators' whose base salaries were slotted for $60,053 earned $108,485 and $125,035. The city budgeted for a street maintenance foreman’s salary of $59,336, but two street maintenance foremen grossed $119,474 and $103,209.

Two people joined the six-figure club last year using a $3 million W.K. Kellog Foundation grant designated to boost Flint’s economy. Aonie Gilcreast, Mayor Karen Weaver’s longtime volunteer adviser, was chosen to lead the economic development team with a four-year $120,000 yearly salary with fringe benefits. Linnette Phillips of the Talent Investment Agency receives a four-year $108,000 yearly salary without benefits to serve as deputy director of the department.

The grant was former Gov. Rick Snyder’s attempt to spur, prioritize and identify economic development efforts in Flint. A 2011 state-ordered preliminary review showed problems with Flint’s finances and ultimately recommended an emergency manager for the city.

In April 2018, state officials said the financial emergency was addressed and receivership was no longer needed. Flint’s spending became more in line with its revenues, changes were made to its budgeting procedures and retiree healthcare costs and pension liabilities were reduced while under emergency management.

But past financial overseers have warned the city about what would happen if Flint allows its fiscal responsibilities to slip and ongoing legacy costs are still one of the most pressing issues for the city’s financial future, said Hughey Newsome, the city’s chief financial officer.

Flint Mayor Karen Weaver’s proposed budget for 2018-19 calls for a $276,000 general fund surplus. But those projections also show a more than $1.75 million potential deficit in 2019-2020. The deficit is projected to grow to more than $8 million by 2022-23. Her annual salary was $91,801 last year.

The deficit is projected to shrink the city’s general fund balance from roughly $18.87 million in 2018-19 to minus $2.78 million by 2022-23.

“Our budgets are more -- you need to take actions to address structural problems,” Newsome previously said. “It does hurt me to show that two funds are going to be in the red in five years. However, that is reality if we don’t take certain actions. We need to lay out a plan.”