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Cress Smith made $71,652 in 2018 working as a public employee at Traverse City Public Schools, ranking the worker in the 82nd percentile in terms of pay among Michigan public employees with available salary information.

Paul Soma is the highest paid Traverse City Public Schools employee among employees whose salary information was made available.

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

Highest paid employees at Traverse City Public Schools in 2018

Rank	Employee Full Name	Amount Earned
1	Paul Soma	$167,625
2	Jame McCall	$132,742
3	Terry Smith	$119,388
4	Jessie Houghton	$119,171
5	Christine Thomas-Hill	$117,146
6	Colleen Smith	$115,888
7	Joseph Esper	$114,279
8	Rose Gallagher	$102,083
9	Bryan Kay	$101,999
10	James Rucker	$101,554
11	Cindy Berck	$100,906
12	Caroline Wacker	$100,396
13	Mark Mattson	$99,471
14	Heidi Maltby-Skodack	$99,447
15	Victoria Derks	$98,902
16	Charles Kolbusz	$97,580
17	Angela Sides-McKay	$96,166
18	Brian Guiney	$96,101
19	Angela Camp	$96,035
20	Kate Burwinkel	$95,568
21	Daniel Tiesworth	$95,410
22	Ryan Ranger	$95,093
23	Lance Morgan	$94,813
24	Ryan Schrock	$94,637
25	Elisabeth Ruskowski	$94,453
26	Lisa Vanloo	$93,940
27	Toby Tisdale	$93,440
28	Kirsten Jones-Morgan	$93,068
29	Jason Carmien	$92,922
30	Danial Oberski	$92,838
31	Darren Frechette	$91,488
32	Katherine Bonne	$90,948
33	Kristin Stuedemann	$89,568
34	Brandi Reynolds	$89,417
35	Andrew Wares	$88,768
36	Benjamin Berger	$88,748
37	Christine Guitar	$88,166
38	Marcia Still	$86,986
39	Robert Hicks	$85,896
40	Deborah Prichard	$85,457
41	Erin Ryan	$84,761
42	Erich Wangeman	$84,725
43	Diana Lyon-Schumacher	$84,130
44	Todd Tester	$84,034
45	Deborah McMaster	$83,493
46	Maria Uhler-Chargo	$83,299
47	Timothy Hysell	$83,015
48	Ivanka Berkshire	$82,586
49	Benjamin Ferris	$82,235
50	Genevieve Minor	$81,955
51	Tiffany Pomaville	$80,219
52	Benjamin Lantz	$79,934
53	Bryn Lynch	$79,292
54	Peter Deneen	$79,163
55	Stephanie Schall-Brazee	$79,152
56	Pamela Forton	$79,034
57	Douglas Gle	$78,788
58	Gregory Farmer	$78,685
59	Kathleen Ray	$78,633
60	Shawna Lyman	$78,525
61	Janna Deering	$78,448
62	Holly Olszewski	$78,188
63	Karen Nelson	$78,107
64	Kelly Rintala	$78,070
65	Jeffrey Swanson	$77,972
66	Charles Rennie	$77,564
67	Andrew Baumann	$77,558
68	John Failor	$77,505
69	Virginia Humphreys	$77,470
70	Annette Cole	$77,423
71	Blake Vance	$77,418
72	Thomas Ford	$77,264
73	Daniel Rosenburg	$77,233
74	Wendee Wolf-Schlarf	$76,724
75	David Kenny	$76,627
76	Maria Taplin	$76,591
77	Anthony Quinn	$76,518
78	David Ready	$76,472
79	Charles Taylor	$76,370
80	Jane Porath	$76,234
81	James Filkins	$76,231
82	Juleen Jenkins-Whall	$75,689
83	Paul Crowley	$75,639
84	Michael Gle	$75,583
85	Wendy Richmond	$75,552
86	Michele Zebell	$75,494
87	Mya Sagan	$75,475
88	Michelle Brown	$75,470
89	Amy Dunscombe	$75,457
90	Susan Maxbauer	$75,418
91	Michelle Brzezinski	$75,414
92	Tamara Lantz	$75,400
93	Linda Williams	$75,379
94	Dessie Hughes	$75,288
95	Kathleen Blazejewski	$75,156
96	Tyson Burch	$75,080
97	Linda Melvin	$75,051
98	Lisbeth Bank	$75,050
99	Mary Radecki	$74,929
100	Michael Tester	$74,926