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Dawn Downey earned $7,826 in 2019, 13.8 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Oscoda County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Joeli Ballard's compensation of $9,791 was the most as a public employee in Oscoda County in 2019.

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

Rank	Employee	Employer	2019 amount earned	2018 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Joeli Ballard	Mio-Ausable Schools	$9,791	$21,923	-55.3%
2	Gerald Jackson	Mio-Ausable Schools	$9,357	$68,678	-86.4%
3	Catherine North	Mio-Ausable Schools	$9,316	$60,928	-84.7%
4	Paul Ciske	Mio-Ausable Schools	$89,538	$79,396	12.8%
5	Jeffrey Demory	Mio-Ausable Schools	$72,002	$62,411	15.4%
6	Dawn Downey	Fairview Area Schools	$7,826	$6,880	13.8%
7	Catrina Case	Mio-Ausable Schools	$7,785	$17,861	-56.4%
8	Barbara Galbraith	Mio-Ausable Schools	$69,916	$67,324	3.8%
9	Cindy Thomey	Mio-Ausable Schools	$69,237	$62,800	10.2%
10	Carla Rhoads	Mio-Ausable Schools	$68,587	$73,775	-7%
11	Teresa Cole	Mio-Ausable Schools	$68,209	$88,907	-23.3%
12	Rick Handrich	Fairview Area Schools	$68,147	$74,551	-8.6%
13	Timothy McFalda	Mio-Ausable Schools	$67,716	$69,326	-2.3%
14	Judy Eurich	Mio-Ausable Schools	$67,377	$64,695	4.1%
15	Delores McArdle	Mio-Ausable Schools	$67,346	$64,786	4%
16	Karen Mitchell	Mio-Ausable Schools	$67,247	$64,381	4.5%
17	Kimberly Clark	Mio-Ausable Schools	$66,971	$66,105	1.3%
18	Ashley Marsh	Mio-Ausable Schools	$65,465	$64,062	2.2%
19	Larry Lubitz	Mio-Ausable Schools	$65,232	$64,298	1.5%
20	Deborah Bemke	Mio-Ausable Schools	$64,865	$62,943	3.1%
21	Amy Clouse	Fairview Area Schools	$64,250	$65,713	-2.2%
22	Amanda Thiel	Mio-Ausable Schools	$64,016	$62,422	2.6%
23	Celeste Shiffer	Mio-Ausable Schools	$63,411	$60,937	4.1%
24	Stacy Nolan	Mio-Ausable Schools	$62,945	$61,745	1.9%
25	Karla Sterly	Mio-Ausable Schools	$62,897	$62,453	0.7%
26	Michelle Marsh	Mio-Ausable Schools	$62,381	$62,004	0.6%
27	Timothy Miller	Mio-Ausable Schools	$62,074	$62,312	-0.4%
28	Jeannette McVeigh	Mio-Ausable Schools	$61,766	$59,784	3.3%
29	Brenda Kauffman	Fairview Area Schools	$61,625	$61,849	-0.4%
30	Nicole Demory	Mio-Ausable Schools	$61,541	$60,145	2.3%
31	Bobbette Ross	Fairview Area Schools	$61,427	$61,264	0.3%
32	Pamela Handrich	Fairview Area Schools	$60,292	$60,030	0.4%
33	Timothy Jones	Mio-Ausable Schools	$6,944	$7,902	-12.1%
34	Elizabeth Boright	Mio-Ausable Schools	$6,505	$5,776	12.6%
35	Brent King	Fairview Area Schools	$6,353	$54,856	-88.4%
36	Krista Fritz	Mio-Ausable Schools	$6,091	$1,837	231.6%
37	Jonathan Barnes	Fairview Area Schools	$59,596	$59,532	0.1%
38	Troy Ross	Fairview Area Schools	$59,119	$58,470	1.1%
39	Kami Winton	Fairview Area Schools	$59,098	$58,947	0.3%
40	Robert Porth	Fairview Area Schools	$57,143	$54,856	4.2%
41	Melinda Green	Mio-Ausable Schools	$56,263	$53,914	4.4%
42	Marc Winton	Fairview Area Schools	$55,344	$53,193	4%
43	Stephanie King	Mio-Ausable Schools	$52,748	$48,259	9.3%
44	Alesha Ray-Welch	Mio-Ausable Schools	$51,700	$44,453	16.3%
45	Charles Varner	Mio-Ausable Schools	$5,544	$1,866	197.1%
46	Miranda Trader	Fairview Area Schools	$5,283	$3,995	32.3%
47	Candy Wood	Mio-Ausable Schools	$49,154	$47,825	2.8%
48	Stephanie Bishop	Fairview Area Schools	$48,878	$46,998	4%
49	Naomi Clouse	Fairview Area Schools	$47,454	$45,243	4.9%
50	Jamie Karshina	Mio-Ausable Schools	$46,969	$50,636	-7.2%
51	Amy Cobb	Fairview Area Schools	$45,761	$43,249	5.8%
52	Mark Trim	Fairview Area Schools	$44,000	$45,000	-2.2%
53	Bridgette Donnelly	Mio-Ausable Schools	$43,917	$45,154	-2.7%
54	Rebecca Holloway	Mio-Ausable Schools	$40,626	$37,949	7.1%
55	Katherine Breed	Fairview Area Schools	$40,005	$39,697	0.8%
56	Kelli McDonald	Mio-Ausable Schools	$39,805	$35,784	11.2%
57	Richard Ellis	Fairview Area Schools	$38,520	$33,183	16.1%
58	Holly Tompkins	Fairview Area Schools	$38,250	$33,834	13%
59	William Palek	Fairview Area Schools	$36,942	$30,679	20.4%
60	Deforest Warren	Mio-Ausable Schools	$36,104	$31,200	15.7%
61	Mary Miller	Mio-Ausable Schools	$36,036	$34,614	4.1%
62	Mary Green	Fairview Area Schools	$36,000	$36,000	0%
63	Dianna Hiser	Mio-Ausable Schools	$29,665	$25,446	16.6%
64	Kimberly Lewis	Mio-Ausable Schools	$25,789	$22,327	15.5%
65	Tammy Babcock	Fairview Area Schools	$25,563	$25,563	0%
66	April Evans	Fairview Area Schools	$24,590	$24,314	1.1%
67	Mary Schrock	Fairview Area Schools	$24,500	$24,650	-0.6%
68	Amee Sutton	Mio-Ausable Schools	$23,195	$18,270	27%
69	Tammy Gadowski	Fairview Area Schools	$21,730	$26,520	-18.1%
70	Melony Haskin	Fairview Area Schools	$21,151	$15,585	35.7%
71	Robin Welser	Mio-Ausable Schools	$20,575	$17,821	15.5%
72	David Kauffman	Fairview Area Schools	$20,444	$20,336	0.5%
73	Jenny Oliver	Fairview Area Schools	$19,995	$17,776	12.5%
74	Cindy Troyer	Fairview Area Schools	$19,832	$19,528	1.6%
75	Roy Ickes	Mio-Ausable Schools	$18,898	$19,203	-1.6%
76	Sharon Sieting	Mio-Ausable Schools	$18,608	$17,915	3.9%
77	Lisa Lefler	Mio-Ausable Schools	$18,483	$65,761	-71.9%
78	Solomon Handrich	Fairview Area Schools	$18,182	$15,989	13.7%
79	Kathlene Yancer	Mio-Ausable Schools	$17,661	$16,997	3.9%
80	Lynn Layman	Fairview Area Schools	$17,496	$17,419	0.4%
81	Lynn Handrich	Fairview Area Schools	$17,378	$15,455	12.4%
82	Renee Nutt	Fairview Area Schools	$17,345	$16,835	3%
83	Sherri Stiles	Mio-Ausable Schools	$17,264	$13,842	24.7%
84	Daniel Wellman	Mio-Ausable Schools	$16,565	$16,211	2.2%
85	Samantha Brown	Mio-Ausable Schools	$16,033	$15,921	0.7%
86	David Gardulski	Mio-Ausable Schools	$15,573	$15,042	3.5%
87	Freda Oaks	Fairview Area Schools	$15,503	$14,317	8.3%
88	Nancy Deguzman	Mio-Ausable Schools	$14,555	$6,643	119.1%
89	Fred Bush	Mio-Ausable Schools	$14,518	$7,404	96.1%
90	Jeremiah Babcock	Fairview Area Schools	$14,489	$14,198	2.1%
91	Teresa Richardson	Mio-Ausable Schools	$14,179	$3,824	270.8%
92	Leslie Wright	Mio-Ausable Schools	$13,555	$13,173	2.9%
93	Barbara Milne	Mio-Ausable Schools	$13,319	$12,410	7.3%
94	Lindsay Kaufman	Mio-Ausable Schools	$13,264	$12,949	2.4%
95	Matthew Whetstone	Mio-Ausable Schools	$13,059	$51,638	-74.7%
96	Shawn Esch	Fairview Area Schools	$121,762	$61,264	98.7%
97	Alicia Hall	Fairview Area Schools	$12,676	$12,289	3.2%
98	Shondra Hoover	Fairview Area Schools	$12,084	$12,039	0.4%
99	Violet Kalbfleisch	Mio-Ausable Schools	$12,072	$11,264	7.2%
100	Kay Anderson	Mio-Ausable Schools	$11,968	$9,662	23.9%