South Michigan News

Lynette Clark earned $26,716 in 2019, 4.6 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Hillsdale County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Wesley Johnson's compensation of $96,000 was the most as a public employee in Hillsdale 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	Wesley Johnson	North Adams-Jerome Public Schools	$96,000	$96,000	0%
2	Dustin Scharer	Jonesville Community Schools	$93,383	$94,154	-0.8%
3	Mitchell Hubbard	Reading Community Schools	$92,844	$92,388	0.5%
4	Theodore Cook	Pittsford Area Schools	$92,359	$94,860	-2.6%
5	Marylou Sitkiewicz	Litchfield Community Schools	$91,775	$91,875	-0.1%
6	Staci Haines Slamka	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$90,563	$89,053	1.7%
7	Shawn Ellison	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$89,081	$75,000	18.8%
7	Brooke Ballee-Stone	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$89,081	$73,883	20.6%
9	Bryan Playford	Jonesville Community Schools	$88,339	$89,114	-0.9%
10	Michael Burger	Pittsford Area Schools	$88,038	$87,856	0.2%
11	Melissa Swan	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$87,334	$14,711	493.6%
12	Eric Swihart	Jonesville Community Schools	$83,540	$82,761	0.9%
12	Pamela Cross	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$83,540	$79,871	4.6%
14	Dennis Irelan	Reading Community Schools	$83,359	$82,189	1.4%
15	Mindy Wilson	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$83,012	$80,922	2.6%
16	Ryan Grimm	Jonesville Community Schools	$82,629	$77,761	6.3%
17	Jerome Curby	Hillsdale Community Schools	$82,553	$82,713	-0.2%
18	Barbara Wheeler	Hillsdale Community Schools	$82,531	$75,473	9.4%
19	Amy Goldsmith	Hillsdale Community Schools	$82,527	$70,530	17%
20	Chelsea Iffland	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$81,886	$82,000	-0.1%
21	Katherine Griffiths	Reading Community Schools	$81,736	$75,056	8.9%
22	Kimberly Salsbury	Jonesville Community Schools	$81,273	$80,380	1.1%
23	Lucas Kennard	Jonesville Community Schools	$80,780	$79,868	1.1%
24	Melinda Eggleston	Hillsdale Community Schools	$79,917	$77,630	2.9%
25	Lora Glei-Dietz	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$79,363	$79,268	0.1%
26	Laurie Vanorman	Hillsdale Community Schools	$79,306	$79,227	0.1%
27	Kathy Lockwood	Jonesville Community Schools	$79,128	$66,520	19%
28	Diane Trachsel	Jonesville Community Schools	$78,547	$76,340	2.9%
29	Brad Affholter	Reading Community Schools	$78,448	$76,960	1.9%
30	Amy Hartley	Jonesville Community Schools	$78,397	$76,447	2.6%
31	Marlena Nichols	Jonesville Community Schools	$78,325	$76,320	2.6%
32	Wendy Purdy	Jonesville Community Schools	$78,283	$76,724	2%
33	Ann Harris	Hillsdale Community Schools	$78,166	$73,800	5.9%
34	Benjamin Slusher	Camden-Frontier Schools	$78,020	$47,053	65.8%
35	Pamela Kelley	Jonesville Community Schools	$77,746	$79,202	-1.8%
36	Kerry Cavanaugh	Jonesville Community Schools	$77,605	$77,029	0.7%
37	James Watson	Jonesville Community Schools	$77,596	$76,700	1.2%
38	Brett Kerspilo	Reading Community Schools	$76,740	$76,459	0.4%
39	Cynthia Magda	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$76,482	$73,421	4.2%
40	Brenda Flint	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$75,925	$73,145	3.8%
41	Jennifer Cook	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$75,733	$74,497	1.7%
42	Paul Van Sickle	Jonesville Community Schools	$75,532	$74,703	1.1%
43	Darin Young	Litchfield Community Schools	$75,390	$71,936	4.8%
44	Jessica Stroble	Jonesville Community Schools	$75,378	$72,367	4.2%
45	Kristen Miller	Litchfield Community Schools	$75,189	$75,579	-0.5%
46	Keith Rushing	Hillsdale Community Schools	$74,781	$75,252	-0.6%
47	David Boswell	Hillsdale Community Schools	$74,691	$73,395	1.8%
48	Sharri Beatty	Jonesville Community Schools	$74,320	$74,681	-0.5%
49	Kathryn Drake	Jonesville Community Schools	$74,302	$73,528	1.1%
50	Bradley Felix	Hillsdale Community Schools	$74,049	$73,925	0.2%
51	Christopher Voisin	North Adams-Jerome Public Schools	$73,840	$61,091	20.9%
52	Nathan Coe	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,830	$66,795	10.5%
53	Linda Wilson-Brown	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,815	$73,036	1.1%
54	Cindy Pauley	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,790	$73,077	1%
55	Laurie Rice	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,770	$72,341	2%
56	Brian Stroble	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,559	$74,012	-0.6%
57	Rebecca Briggs	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,542	$72,105	2%
58	Darick Clark	Pittsford Area Schools	$73,470	$73,290	0.2%
59	Cathy Burlew	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,400	$72,554	1.2%
60	Stacy Ansel	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$73,383	$69,540	5.5%
61	Sarah Sundberg	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,295	$72,466	1.1%
62	Jenny Lee	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,220	$72,840	0.5%
63	Elizabeth Girdham	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,173	$72,273	1.2%
64	Tania Wilson	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,131	$72,329	1.1%
65	Denise McCosh	Hillsdale Community Schools	$73,118	$71,490	2.3%
66	Melissa Gutowski	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,097	$72,130	1.3%
67	Jared Maxwell	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,024	$72,776	0.3%
68	David Stanton	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,019	$70,423	3.7%
68	Robin Rowe	Jonesville Community Schools	$73,019	$70,294	3.9%
70	Elizabeth Quigley	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$72,954	$80,892	-9.8%
71	Erin Smith	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,819	$68,618	6.1%
72	Denise Deguise	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,771	$72,055	1%
73	Rachel Mandrelle	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,653	$72,095	0.8%
74	Marc Lemerand	Hillsdale Community Schools	$72,631	$72,136	0.7%
75	Judy Warner	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,570	$72,690	-0.2%
76	Amanda Moyer	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$72,489	$71,405	1.5%
77	Blair Church	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,376	$70,294	3%
78	Stefanie Rathburn	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$72,336	$69,540	4%
78	Jaime Mykeloff	Jonesville Community Schools	$72,336	$62,389	15.9%
80	Zachary Lee	Pittsford Area Schools	$71,952	$68,927	4.4%
81	Renee Marshall	Camden-Frontier Schools	$71,802	$60,853	18%
82	Linda Staib	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$71,755	$71,069	1%
83	Debra Price	Reading Community Schools	$71,729	$71,373	0.5%
84	Kevin Bailey	Reading Community Schools	$71,508	$71,060	0.6%
85	Robert Drake	Jonesville Community Schools	$71,042	$73,534	-3.4%
86	Amy Gramling	Hillsdale Community Schools	$70,746	$73,355	-3.6%
87	Stephanie Hines	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$70,588	$66,193	6.6%
88	Donna Roden-English	Hillsdale Community Schools	$70,577	$70,641	-0.1%
89	Karie Ervans	Litchfield Community Schools	$70,560	$68,383	3.2%
90	Deanna Mann	Jonesville Community Schools	$70,503	$70,147	0.5%
91	Charlotte Zorn	Jonesville Community Schools	$70,363	$69,748	0.9%
92	Jennifer Welden	Jonesville Community Schools	$70,234	$66,297	5.9%
93	Nicholas Tucker	Hillsdale Community Schools	$70,167	$67,273	4.3%
94	Ronna Steel	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$129,425	$127,512	1.5%
95	Shawn Vondra	Hillsdale Community Schools	$119,248	$118,871	0.3%
96	Chellie Broesamle	Jonesville Community Schools	$117,323	$119,161	-1.5%
97	Scott Riley	Camden-Frontier Schools	$115,000	$115,000	0%
98	Ellen Masters	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$109,866	$105,083	4.6%
99	Belinda Shaffer	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$108,261	$100,673	7.5%
100	David Tobar	Hillsdale County Intermediate School District	$106,006	$94,500	12.2%