Carol Barnes earns 15.4% more in 2019 working as a public employee in Branch County

Dec 22, 2021

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Carol Barnes earned $80,504 in 2019, 15.4 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Branch County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Krista Searls’s compensation of $99,628 was the most as a public employee in Branch County in 2019.

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

Top 100 highest paid public employees in 2019 in Branch County

Rank	Employee	Employer	2019 amount earned	2018 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Krista Searls	Coldwater Community Schools	$99,628	$98,526	1.1%
2	Hilary Curtis	Branch County Intermediate School District	$99,577	$95,281	4.5%
3	Gary Dancer	Coldwater Community Schools	$98,299	$97,262	1.1%
4	Shawn Caldwell	Coldwater Community Schools	$97,252	$97,701	-0.5%
5	Mark Knaack	Branch County Intermediate School District	$97,241	$94,892	2.5%
6	Tobi Reardon	Coldwater Community Schools	$97,144	$75,714	28.3%
7	Christina Feneley	Union City Community Schools	$96,073	$96,073	0%
8	Nathan Johnson	Branch County Intermediate School District	$95,119	$85,418	11.4%
9	Wesley McCrea	Bronson Community School	$91,657	$90,532	1.2%
10	Lori Vaccaro	Union City Community Schools	$91,341	$91,341	0%
11	Jeffrey Schorfhaar	Coldwater Community Schools	$90,992	$87,337	4.2%
12	Cynthia Rowe	Branch County Intermediate School District	$90,807	$77,643	17%
13	Ronald Olmsted	Quincy Community Schools	$89,790	$88,814	1.1%
14	Brandon Suever	Quincy Community Schools	$88,685	$70,866	25.1%
15	Mary Mestelle	Branch County Intermediate School District	$88,525	$69,743	26.9%
16	Susanne Kaschalk	Coldwater Community Schools	$88,423	$77,399	14.2%
17	Linda Myers	Coldwater Community Schools	$88,149	$75,614	16.6%
18	Jennifer Searls	Branch County Intermediate School District	$88,107	$91,166	-3.4%
19	Ronnie Ford	Coldwater Community Schools	$87,514	$79,603	9.9%
20	Jeffrey Hammond	Union City Community Schools	$87,019	$68,933	26.2%
21	Todd Farmer	Coldwater Community Schools	$86,889	$86,152	0.9%
22	Mark Demeester	Coldwater Community Schools	$86,052	$81,382	5.7%
23	Robert Evans	Quincy Community Schools	$85,053	$84,308	0.9%
24	James Crabbs	Quincy Community Schools	$84,812	$84,812	0%
25	Jeffrey Powell	Quincy Community Schools	$84,666	$75,042	12.8%
26	Jean Laclair	Bronson Community School	$84,537	$83,501	1.2%
27	Kimberley Nichols	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,858	$80,257	4.5%
28	Andrea Burns	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,800	$83,969	-0.2%
29	Kenneth Smoker	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,799	$80,279	4.4%
30	Brian Stevens	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,311	$81,607	2.1%
31	James Spray	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,185	$79,911	4.1%
32	Paul Nastally	Coldwater Community Schools	$83,075	$83,274	-0.2%
33	Sherry Bean	Coldwater Community Schools	$82,711	$78,893	4.8%
34	Richard Adams	Quincy Community Schools	$82,180	$83,320	-1.4%
35	Michael McConnell	Coldwater Community Schools	$82,015	$78,482	4.5%
36	Kami Duda	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,723	$68,698	19%
37	Karen Kiss	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,696	$78,170	4.5%
38	Denise MacArthur	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,668	$77,097	5.9%
39	Josephine Smith	Branch County Intermediate School District	$81,653	$71,826	13.7%
40	Jayne Harris	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,498	$75,922	7.3%
41	Lynn Bach	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,489	$81,973	-0.6%
42	Julia Lyon-Welch	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,422	$81,995	-0.7%
43	Carolyn Youssef	Coldwater Community Schools	$81,398	$80,145	1.6%
44	Sharon Powell	Quincy Community Schools	$81,049	$80,237	1%
45	Carrie Preston	Branch County Intermediate School District	$80,990	$80,712	0.3%
46	Jessica Krzyzanski	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,863	$81,619	-0.9%
47	Denise Sawyer	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,595	$75,819	6.3%
48	Kelly Murphy	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,563	$75,754	6.3%
49	Scott Rodesiler	Quincy Community Schools	$80,533	$80,530	0%
50	Carol Barnes	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,504	$69,751	15.4%
51	Debra Warner	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,407	$77,175	4.2%
52	Mary Dally	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,364	$76,903	4.5%
53	Margo Boyd	Coldwater Community Schools	$80,346	$76,534	5%
54	Michael Clark	Branch County Intermediate School District	$80,080	$72,802	10%
55	Sheryl Hildenbrand	Quincy Community Schools	$79,636	$82,876	-3.9%
56	Jennifer Milligan	Coldwater Community Schools	$79,588	$75,719	5.1%
57	Ryan Scheetz	Coldwater Community Schools	$79,580	$75,184	5.8%
58	Angela Madden	Coldwater Community Schools	$79,350	$76,176	4.2%
58	James Henry	Coldwater Community Schools	$79,350	$75,754	4.7%
60	Robert Hostetler	Coldwater Community Schools	$79,182	$75,970	4.2%
61	Karen Sobeske	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,872	$73,772	6.9%
62	Rachel Hard	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,669	$73,338	7.3%
63	Brien Kelly	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,665	$71,384	10.2%
64	Kristen Dogan	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,612	$72,316	8.7%
65	Mark Heifner	Bronson Community School	$78,608	$77,644	1.2%
66	Charlene Fincham	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,517	$74,665	5.2%
67	Janene Sowles	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,485	$74,463	5.4%
68	Rhonda Machan	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,478	$73,536	6.7%
69	Sarah Weekly	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,393	$73,953	6%
70	Susan Sobeske	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,381	$73,265	7%
71	Larry Loviska	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,378	$71,781	9.2%
72	Michael Eyre	Union City Community Schools	$78,359	$77,808	0.7%
73	Jaci Hoorman	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,324	$73,387	6.7%
74	Kelli Redman	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,186	$74,309	5.2%
75	Pamela Vanzuilen	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,111	$73,640	6.1%
76	Susan Jeudevine	Branch County Intermediate School District	$78,068	$73,120	6.8%
77	Debra Wilkinson	Coldwater Community Schools	$78,057	$74,535	4.7%
78	Trista Roop	Branch County Intermediate School District	$77,986	$70,893	10%
79	Robert Iwanicki	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,915	$72,315	7.7%
80	Erin O’Connor	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,854	$73,342	6.2%
81	Lisa Renshaw	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,846	$73,555	5.8%
82	Janette Jones	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,650	$73,238	6%
83	Sandra Reichhart	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,454	$73,951	4.7%
84	Kellie Stroud	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,276	$73,683	4.9%
85	Andrew Rossow	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,242	$74,279	4%
86	Suzanne Gonzalez	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,169	$73,556	4.9%
87	Alicia Marriott	Quincy Community Schools	$77,135	$75,136	2.7%
88	Michael Renshaw	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,095	$74,195	3.9%
89	Michele Bender	Coldwater Community Schools	$77,067	$73,971	4.2%
90	Terry Boguth	Coldwater Community Schools	$171,444	$168,240	1.9%
91	Patrick Kreger	Union City Community Schools	$124,124	$124,071	0%
92	Randall Sowles	Branch County Intermediate School District	$117,925	$105,200	12.1%
93	Darrin Adair	Branch County Intermediate School District	$117,718	$115,203	2.2%
94	Christopher Katz	Union City Community Schools	$114,893	$106,089	8.3%
95	William Milnes	Coldwater Community Schools	$111,934	$110,896	0.9%
96	Richard Hilderley	Bronson Community School	$111,875	$110,000	1.7%
97	Raymond Wheaton	Branch County Intermediate School District	$107,214	$71,208	50.6%
98	Amanda Miller	Coldwater Community Schools	$107,110	$91,155	17.5%
99	Julie Slusher	Coldwater Community Schools	$105,356	$104,087	1.2%
100	Diane Shiery	Branch County Intermediate School District	$103,970	$100,809	3.1%

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