Mich. Comp. Laws § 10.11

Sec. 1. The governor may from time to time employ clerks and assistants in addition to those already provided for by law, for service in his or her department, as the governor may consider necessary, the compensation of those clerks and assistants to be determined by the governor and to be paid from the general fund on the warrant of the state treasurer, in like manner as the salaries of state officers are paid.