North Michigan News

Rick Ankerson earned $42,776 in 2019, 17.3 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Grand Traverse County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Brooke Laurent's compensation of $99,508 was the most as a public employee in Grand Traverse 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	Brooke Laurent	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$99,508	$98,322	1.2%
2	Karen Kahler	Northwestern Michigan College	$98,984	$96,458	2.6%
3	Susan Decamillis	Northwestern Michigan College	$98,844	$103,304	-4.3%
4	Christine Guitar	Traverse City Public Schools	$98,423	$88,166	11.6%
5	John Breithaupt	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$98,338	$82,501	19.2%
6	Angela Sides-McKay	Traverse City Public Schools	$98,226	$96,165	2.1%
7	Danial Oberski	Traverse City Public Schools	$97,691	$92,837	5.2%
8	Michael Hartman	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$97,485	$104,812	-7%
9	Julie Gordon	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$97,194	$96,059	1.2%
10	Lance Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	$97,106	$94,813	2.4%
11	Kerrey Woughter	Traverse City Public Schools	$96,918	$74,349	30.4%
12	Joel Papcun	Northwestern Michigan College	$96,673	$93,836	3%
13	Angela Camp	Traverse City Public Schools	$96,606	$96,035	0.6%
14	Thomas Gordon	Northwestern Michigan College	$96,065	$89,968	6.8%
15	Lisa Vanloo	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,867	$93,940	2.1%
16	Elisabeth Ruskowski	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,726	$94,453	1.3%
17	Ryan Ranger	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,694	$95,092	0.6%
18	Kirsten Jones-Morgan	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,597	$93,067	2.7%
19	Daniel Tiesworth	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,334	$95,410	-0.1%
19	Joy Goodchild	Northwestern Michigan College	$95,334	$93,831	1.6%
21	Benjamin Berger	Traverse City Public Schools	$95,311	$88,748	7.4%
22	Ryan Schrock	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,983	$94,637	0.4%
23	Rhonda Argyle	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,848	$47,659	99%
24	Toby Tisdale	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,834	$93,440	1.5%
25	Cathryn Claerhout	Northwestern Michigan College	$94,774	$93,271	1.6%
26	Kate Burwinkel	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,448	$95,567	-1.2%
27	Bryan Kay	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,437	$101,999	-7.4%
28	Andrew Wares	Traverse City Public Schools	$94,053	$88,768	6%
29	Laura Schmidt	Northwestern Michigan College	$93,202	$95,377	-2.3%
30	Michael Emerson	Northwestern Michigan College	$92,781	$95,961	-3.3%
31	Michael Moran	Kingsley Area Schools	$92,160	$84,000	9.7%
32	Stephen Drake	Northwestern Michigan College	$91,874	$98,468	-6.7%
33	Victoria Derks	Traverse City Public Schools	$91,117	$98,901	-7.9%
34	Michael Gillett	Northwestern Michigan College	$91,025	$87,870	3.6%
35	Sara Doud	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$90,405	$87,350	3.5%
36	Gary Klotzbach	Northwestern Michigan College	$90,126	$90,767	-0.7%
37	Brian Guiney	Traverse City Public Schools	$90,097	$96,101	-6.2%
38	Kristin Stuedemann	Traverse City Public Schools	$90,077	$89,568	0.6%
39	Erin Ryan	Traverse City Public Schools	$90,017	$84,760	6.2%
40	Amjad Khan	Northwestern Michigan College	$89,842	$85,845	4.7%
41	Tamella Livengood	Northwestern Michigan College	$88,921	$89,768	-0.9%
42	Rebecca McKee	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,549	$86,565	2.3%
43	Molly Straebel	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,260	$92,756	-4.8%
44	Peter Bruning	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,245	$88,173	0.1%
45	Kendra Barnes	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$88,146	$87,401	0.9%
46	Jeffrey Cobb	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,856	$77,608	13.2%
47	Julie Orr	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$87,758	$84,774	3.5%
48	Gregory Lacross	Northwestern Michigan College	$87,429	$87,820	-0.4%
49	Scott Schuh	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$87,241	$89,217	-2.2%
50	Robert Hicks	Traverse City Public Schools	$87,180	$85,895	1.5%
51	Cheryl Bloomquist	Northwestern Michigan College	$86,866	$79,202	9.7%
52	Susan O'Connor	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$86,545	$82,376	5.1%
52	Rebecca Wooters	Northwestern Michigan College	$86,545	$82,026	5.5%
54	Kristy Burns	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$86,526	$84,673	2.2%
55	Michele Cadotte	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$86,377	$84,357	2.4%
56	Deborah Maison	Northwestern Michigan College	$86,021	$83,371	3.2%
57	Michael Anderson	Northwestern Michigan College	$85,986	$71,369	20.5%
58	Karl Schroeder	Northwestern Michigan College	$85,725	$67,735	26.6%
59	Darren Depuydt	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$85,369	$85,328	0%
60	Joan Bahra	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$85,358	$84,637	0.9%
61	Paul Soma	Traverse City Public Schools	$177,233	$167,625	5.7%
62	Stephen Siciliano	Northwestern Michigan College	$142,771	$137,865	3.6%
63	Todd Neibauer	Northwestern Michigan College	$141,876	$132,546	7%
64	Marguerite Cotto	Northwestern Michigan College	$140,074	$137,865	1.6%
64	Victoria Cook	Northwestern Michigan College	$140,074	$137,865	1.6%
66	Carol Greilick	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$135,560	$133,022	1.9%
67	Jame McCall	Traverse City Public Schools	$135,425	$132,741	2%
68	Patrick Lamb	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$131,079	$118,427	10.7%
69	Keith Smith	Kingsley Area Schools	$130,000	$130,000	0%
70	Jessie Houghton	Traverse City Public Schools	$127,954	$119,170	7.4%
71	Christine Thomas-Hill	Traverse City Public Schools	$127,615	$117,145	8.9%
72	Cindy Berck	Traverse City Public Schools	$121,971	$100,905	20.9%
73	Nicholas Roster	Northwestern Michigan College	$119,749	$126,922	-5.7%
74	Terry Smith	Traverse City Public Schools	$119,395	$119,388	0%
75	Joseph Esper	Traverse City Public Schools	$118,560	$114,279	3.7%
76	Eugene Jenneman	Northwestern Michigan College	$113,315	$113,315	0%
77	Paul Bauer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$112,566	$101,418	11%
78	Rebecca Teahen	Northwestern Michigan College	$112,330	$103,304	8.7%
79	Michael Torre	Northwestern Michigan College	$111,494	$102,114	9.2%
80	Gerald Dobek	Northwestern Michigan College	$107,052	$100,516	6.5%
81	Brent Boerema	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$107,025	$104,979	1.9%
82	Debra Nelson	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$105,638	$103,515	2.1%
83	Matthew Nausadis	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$105,538	$103,615	1.9%
84	Gerard Achenbach	Northwestern Michigan College	$104,959	$103,304	1.6%
85	Jason Carmien	Traverse City Public Schools	$104,690	$92,922	12.7%
86	Kimberlie Urbanski	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$104,140	$102,616	1.5%
87	Heidi Maltby-Skodack	Traverse City Public Schools	$103,882	$99,447	4.5%
88	Benjamin Lantz	Traverse City Public Schools	$103,750	$79,934	29.8%
89	Hans Vansumeren	Northwestern Michigan College	$103,506	$89,777	15.3%
90	Linda Bielecki	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$103,376	$92,114	12.2%
91	Stephanie Long	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,687	$100,285	2.4%
91	Karen Kluesner-Spring	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,687	$101,185	1.5%
93	Yvonne Donohoe McCool	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,508	$100,038	2.5%
94	Charles Kolbusz	Traverse City Public Schools	$102,152	$97,579	4.7%
95	Emily Quinn	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,100	$96,758	5.5%
96	Rena Spencer	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$102,079	$100,586	1.5%
97	Rose Gallagher	Traverse City Public Schools	$101,758	$102,082	-0.3%
98	Mark Ross	Northwestern Michigan College	$100,822	$87,820	14.8%
98	Bronwyn Jones	Northwestern Michigan College	$100,822	$87,820	14.8%
100	Rebecca Goodwin	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District	$100,508	$98,038	2.5%