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Cynthia Niswonger made $50,750 in 2018 working as a public employee in Grand Traverse County, placing the worker in the 66th percentile of pay for Michigan public employees.

Cynthia Niswonger works for Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District. The highest paid public employee in Grand Traverse County is Paul Soma who works for Traverse City Public Schools.

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

Top 100 highest paid public employees of Grand Traverse County in 2018

Rank	Employee Name	Employer	Amount Earned
1	Paul Soma	Traverse City Public Schools	$167,625
2	Jason Jeffrey	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$139,758
3	Stephen Siciliano	Northwestern Michigan College	$137,865
4	Marguerite Cotto	Northwestern Michigan College	$137,865
5	Victoria Cook	Northwestern Michigan College	$137,865
6	Stephanie Murray	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$133,764
7	Carol Greilick	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$133,022
8	Jame McCall	Traverse City Public Schools	$132,742
9	Todd Neibauer	Northwestern Michigan College	$132,546
10	Keith Smith	Kingsley Area School	$130,000
11	Nicholas Roster	Northwestern Michigan College	$126,923
12	Robert Mason	Northwestern Michigan College	$124,555
13	Terry Smith	Traverse City Public Schools	$119,388
14	Jessie Houghton	Traverse City Public Schools	$119,171
15	Patrick Lamb	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$118,427
16	Christine Thomas-Hill	Traverse City Public Schools	$117,146
17	Colleen Smith	Traverse City Public Schools	$115,888
18	Joseph Esper	Traverse City Public Schools	$114,279
19	Eugene Jenneman	Northwestern Michigan College	$113,315
20	Alison Collins	Northwestern Michigan College	$110,984
21	Brent Boerema	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$104,979
22	Michael Hartman	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$104,812
23	Matthew Nausadis	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$103,615
24	Debra Nelson	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$103,515
25	Rebecca Teahen	Northwestern Michigan College	$103,305
26	Susan Decamillis	Northwestern Michigan College	$103,305
27	Gerard Achenbach	Northwestern Michigan College	$103,304
28	Kimberlie Urbanski	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,616
29	Michael Torre	Northwestern Michigan College	$102,114
30	Rose Gallagher	Traverse City Public Schools	$102,083
31	Bryan Kay	Traverse City Public Schools	$101,999
32	James Rucker	Traverse City Public Schools	$101,554
33	Paul Bauer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$101,418
34	Ernest East	Northwestern Michigan College	$101,359
35	Karen Kluesner-Spring	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$101,185
36	Cindy Berck	Traverse City Public Schools	$100,906
37	Rena Spencer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$100,586
38	Gerald Dobek	Northwestern Michigan College	$100,517
39	Caroline Wacker	Traverse City Public Schools	$100,396
40	Paul White	Kingsley Area School	$100,293
41	Stephanie Long	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$100,285
42	Yvonne Donohoe McCool	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$100,038
43	Mark Mattson	Traverse City Public Schools	$99,471
44	Heidi Maltby-Skodack	Traverse City Public Schools	$99,447
45	Marty Guiney	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$99,038
46	Victoria Derks	Traverse City Public Schools	$98,902
47	Diana Longton	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$98,582
48	Stephen Drake	Northwestern Michigan College	$98,469
49	Brooke Laurent	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$98,322
50	Jessica Harrand	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$98,038
50	Rebecca Goodwin	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$98,038
52	Michael Hochscheidt	Northwestern Michigan College	$97,903
53	Charles Kolbusz	Traverse City Public Schools	$97,580
54	Jill Vigenski	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$97,457
55	Emily Quinn	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$96,758
56	Karen Kahler	Northwestern Michigan College	$96,458
57	Angela Sides-McKay	Traverse City Public Schools	$96,166
58	Brian Guiney	Traverse City Public Schools	$96,101
59	Julie Gordon	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$96,059
60	Angela Camp	Traverse City Public Schools	$96,035
61	Michael Emerson	Northwestern Michigan College	$95,962
62	Kate Burwinkel	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,568
63	Daniel Tiesworth	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,410
64	Laura Schmidt	Northwestern Michigan College	$95,377
65	Ryan Ranger	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,093
66	Lance Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,813
67	Ryan Schrock	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,637
68	Elisabeth Ruskowski	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,453
69	Matthew Szatkiewicz	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$94,040
70	Lisa Vanloo	Traverse City Public Schools	$93,940
71	Joel Papcun	Northwestern Michigan College	$93,837
72	Joy Goodchild	Northwestern Michigan College	$93,831
73	Toby Tisdale	Traverse City Public Schools	$93,440
74	Cathryn Claerhout	Northwestern Michigan College	$93,271
75	Kirsten Jones-Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	$93,068
76	Jason Carmien	Traverse City Public Schools	$92,922
77	Danial Oberski	Traverse City Public Schools	$92,838
78	Molly Straebel	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$92,756
79	Karl Hartman	Kingsley Area School	$92,300
80	Linda Bielecki	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$92,114
81	Metick Teeter	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$91,883
82	Darren Frechette	Traverse City Public Schools	$91,488
83	Katherine Bonne	Traverse City Public Schools	$90,948
84	Gary Klotzbach	Northwestern Michigan College	$90,768
85	Thomas Gordon	Northwestern Michigan College	$89,969
86	David Hall	Kingsley Area School	$89,879
87	Hans Vansumeren	Northwestern Michigan College	$89,778
88	Tamella Livengood	Northwestern Michigan College	$89,769
89	Kristin Stuedemann	Traverse City Public Schools	$89,568
90	Brandi Reynolds	Traverse City Public Schools	$89,417
91	Scott Schuh	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$89,217
92	Cynthia Barker	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,884
93	Andrew Wares	Traverse City Public Schools	$88,768
94	Benjamin Berger	Traverse City Public Schools	$88,748
95	Peter Bruning	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,173
96	Christine Guitar	Traverse City Public Schools	$88,166
97	Michael Gillett	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,871
98	Mark Ross	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,821
98	Gregory Lacross	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,821
98	Bronwyn Jones	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,821