North Michigan News

Karen Reister earned $77,611 in 2018, 3.6 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Grand Traverse County.

Paul Soma's compensation of $167,625 was the most as a public employee in Grand Traverse County in 2018.

The data was gathered by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit research and educational institute.

Rank	Employee	Employer	2018 amount earned	2017 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Paul Soma	Traverse City Public Schools	167,625	167,625	0%
2	Jason Jeffrey	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	139,758	136,302	2.5%
3	Victoria Cook	Northwestern Michigan College	137,865	134,117	2.8%
4	Marguerite Cotto	Northwestern Michigan College	137,865	136,838	0.8%
5	Stephen Siciliano	Northwestern Michigan College	137,865	139,559	-1.2%
6	Stephanie Murray	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	133,764	134,202	-0.3%
7	Carol Greilick	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	133,022	131,105	1.5%
8	Jame McCall	Traverse City Public Schools	132,741	120,935	9.8%
9	Todd Neibauer	Northwestern Michigan College	132,546	126,309	4.9%
10	Keith Smith	Kingsley Area School	130,000	130,000	0%
11	Nicholas Roster	Northwestern Michigan College	126,922	101,699	24.8%
12	Robert Mason	Northwestern Michigan College	124,555	124,030	0.4%
13	Terry Smith	Traverse City Public Schools	119,388	115,840	3.1%
14	Jessie Houghton	Traverse City Public Schools	119,170	120,207	-0.9%
15	Patrick Lamb	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	118,427	116,224	1.9%
16	Christine Thomas-Hill	Traverse City Public Schools	117,145	112,501	4.1%
17	Colleen Smith	Traverse City Public Schools	115,888	113,205	2.4%
18	Joseph Esper	Traverse City Public Schools	114,279	116,777	-2.1%
19	Eugene Jenneman	Northwestern Michigan College	113,315	113,315	0%
20	Alison Collins	Northwestern Michigan College	110,984	104,349	6.4%
21	Brent Boerema	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	104,979	103,542	1.4%
22	Michael Hartman	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	104,812	39,698	164%
23	Matthew Nausadis	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	103,615	102,099	1.5%
24	Debra Nelson	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	103,515	101,999	1.5%
25	Gerard Achenbach	Northwestern Michigan College	103,304	106,134	-2.7%
26	Susan Decamillis	Northwestern Michigan College	103,304	110,320	-6.4%
27	Rebecca Teahen	Northwestern Michigan College	103,304	105,377	-2%
28	Kimberlie Urbanski	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	102,616	100,114	2.5%
29	Michael Torre	Northwestern Michigan College	102,114	99,813	2.3%
30	Rose Gallagher	Traverse City Public Schools	102,082	91,821	11.2%
31	Bryan Kay	Traverse City Public Schools	101,999	57,438	77.6%
32	James Rucker	Traverse City Public Schools	101,553	100,188	1.4%
33	Paul Bauer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	101,418	99,935	1.5%
34	Ernest East	Northwestern Michigan College	101,359	92,253	9.9%
35	Karen Kluesner-Spring	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	101,185	98,704	2.5%
36	Cindy Berck	Traverse City Public Schools	100,905	91,045	10.8%
37	Rena Spencer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	100,586	113,943	-11.7%
38	Gerald Dobek	Northwestern Michigan College	100,516	93,959	7%
39	Caroline Wacker	Traverse City Public Schools	100,395	101,351	-0.9%
40	Paul White	Kingsley Area School	100,293	44,676	124.5%
41	Stephanie Long	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	100,285	98,394	1.9%
42	Yvonne Donohoe McCool	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	100,038	98,884	1.2%
43	Mark Mattson	Traverse City Public Schools	99,471	98,349	1.1%
44	Heidi Maltby-Skodack	Traverse City Public Schools	99,447	93,401	6.5%
45	Victoria Derks	Traverse City Public Schools	98,901	79,559	24.3%
46	Diana Longton	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	98,581	85,081	15.9%
47	Brooke Laurent	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	98,322	96,884	1.5%
48	Rebecca Goodwin	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	98,038	96,884	1.2%
49	Jessica Harrand	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	98,038	97,009	1.1%
50	Michael Hochscheidt	Northwestern Michigan College	97,903	107,185	-8.7%
51	Charles Kolbusz	Traverse City Public Schools	97,579	97,149	0.4%
52	Jill Vigenski	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	97,457	89,435	9%
53	Emily Quinn	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	96,758	97,589	-0.9%
54	Karen Kahler	Northwestern Michigan College	96,458	93,777	2.9%
55	Angela Sides-McKay	Traverse City Public Schools	96,165	97,145	-1%
56	Brian Guiney	Traverse City Public Schools	96,101	69,795	37.7%
57	Julie Gordon	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	96,059	96,884	-0.9%
58	Angela Camp	Traverse City Public Schools	96,035	94,506	1.6%
59	Michael Emerson	Northwestern Michigan College	95,961	94,123	2%
60	Kate Burwinkel	Traverse City Public Schools	95,567	96,767	-1.2%
61	Daniel Tiesworth	Traverse City Public Schools	95,410	98,206	-2.8%
62	Laura Schmidt	Northwestern Michigan College	95,377	90,561	5.3%
63	Ryan Ranger	Traverse City Public Schools	95,092	98,151	-3.1%
64	Lance Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	94,813	93,426	1.5%
65	Ryan Schrock	Traverse City Public Schools	94,637	87,588	8%
66	Elisabeth Ruskowski	Traverse City Public Schools	94,453	97,054	-2.7%
67	Matthew Szatkiewicz	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	94,039	81,994	14.7%
68	Lisa Vanloo	Traverse City Public Schools	93,940	92,566	1.5%
69	Joel Papcun	Northwestern Michigan College	93,836	91,079	3%
70	Toby Tisdale	Traverse City Public Schools	93,440	95,061	-1.7%
71	Cathryn Claerhout	Northwestern Michigan College	93,271	91,888	1.5%
72	Kirsten Jones-Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	93,067	91,954	1.2%
73	Jason Carmien	Traverse City Public Schools	92,922	90,972	2.1%
74	Danial Oberski	Traverse City Public Schools	92,837	91,206	1.8%
75	Molly Straebel	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	92,756	94,353	-1.7%
76	Karl Hartman	Kingsley Area School	92,300	92,000	0.3%
77	Linda Bielecki	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	92,114	84,798	8.6%
78	Darren Frechette	Traverse City Public Schools	91,488	81,575	12.2%
79	Katherine Bonne	Traverse City Public Schools	90,948	93,408	-2.6%
80	Gary Klotzbach	Northwestern Michigan College	90,767	90,854	-0.1%
81	Thomas Gordon	Northwestern Michigan College	89,968	88,212	2%
82	David Hall	Kingsley Area School	89,879	73,983	21.5%
83	Hans Vansumeren	Northwestern Michigan College	89,777	87,011	3.2%
84	Tamella Livengood	Northwestern Michigan College	89,768	89,826	-0.1%
85	Kristin Stuedemann	Traverse City Public Schools	89,568	94,121	-4.8%
86	Brandi Reynolds	Traverse City Public Schools	89,417	99,308	-10%
87	Scott Schuh	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	89,217	93,429	-4.5%
88	Cynthia Barker	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	88,883	85,349	4.1%
89	Andrew Wares	Traverse City Public Schools	88,768	86,673	2.4%
90	Benjamin Berger	Traverse City Public Schools	88,748	93,094	-4.7%
91	Peter Bruning	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	88,173	88,606	-0.5%
92	Christine Guitar	Traverse City Public Schools	88,166	89,071	-1%
93	Michael Gillett	Northwestern Michigan College	87,870	88,112	-0.3%
94	Bronwyn Jones	Northwestern Michigan College	87,820	88,112	-0.3%
95	Gregory Lacross	Northwestern Michigan College	87,820	90,148	-2.6%
96	Mark Ross	Northwestern Michigan College	87,820	88,162	-0.4%
97	Kendra Barnes	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	87,401	89,771	-2.6%
98	Sara Doud	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	87,350	96,220	-9.2%
99	Michael Hill	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	87,252	172,042	-49.3%
100	Marcia Still	Traverse City Public Schools	86,985	86,023	1.1%