Mayor Melvin Carter entered office in 2018 pledging to make St. Paul’s city leadership more racially and ethnically reflective of the city itself.

In addition to his department directors, chosen with the help of community hiring panels, Carter has surrounded himself with a relatively young and diverse Cabinet — easily the most diverse in city history.

Not every staffer has stuck around.

Hired less than a year ago, Jason Sole — director of the mayor’s Community-First Public Safety Initiative — said he was forced to resign after a series of clashes with the mayor’s leadership and left the position Feb. 4. Sole made $102,000.

Here are the highest-paid members of the mayor’s team, followed by the rest of his Cabinet (in alphabetical order):

TAREK TOMES, JAIME TINCHER, MELVIN CARTER

Chief Innovation Officer Tarek Tomes, $160,000

Deputy Mayor Jaime Tincher, $154,000

Mayor Melvin Carter, $129,000

TONI NEWBORN, RUSS STARK, THAOMEE XIONG

Chief Equity Officer Toni Newborn, $127,000

Chief Resilience Officer Russ Stark, $108,000

Director of Intergovernmental Relations Thaomee Xiong, $108,000

NAOMI ALEMSEGED, KAOHLY HER, IKRAM KOLISO

Naomi Alemseged, constituent outreach coordinator

Kaohly Her, policy director*

Ikram Koliso, outgoing policy associate, will be the new college savings account program manager

PETER LEGGETT, NOEL NIX, JOAN PHILLIPS, CHRISTINE RIDER

Peter Leggett, communications director

Noel Nix, deputy director of intergovernmental relations and community engagement

Joan Phillips, executive assistant to the mayor

Christine Rider, senior aide to the deputy mayor

CAMILE TINNIN, ELIZABETH XIONG, DANIEL YANG

Camile Tinnin, VISTA worker

Elizabeth Xiong, press secretary

Daniel Yang, senior policy advisor

*Policy Director Kaohly Her won election to the Minnesota House in November. She requested a leave of absence from the mayor’s office from January to June to focus on the Legislative session. As a result of the unpaid leave, her regular salary of $120,000 was reduced to $73,000 for 2019.