Sturgis-Coldwater News

Shelly Leach made $71,310 in 2018 working as a public employee in St. Joseph County, placing the worker in the 82nd percentile of pay for Michigan public employees.

Shelly Leach works for Three Rivers Public Schools. The highest paid public employee in St. Joseph County is Teresa Belote who works for St. Joseph County Intermediate School District.

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 St. Joseph County in 2018

Rank	Employee Name	Employer	Amount Earned
1	Teresa Belote	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$139,000
2	Deana Strudwick	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$123,600
3	Nicole Airgood	Sturgis Public School	$123,460
4	Stephen Wilson	Constantine Public Schools	$119,096
5	Kelli Dechnik	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$115,000
6	William Lederman	Glen Oaks Community College	$114,433
7	Lester Keith	Glen Oaks Community College	$113,124
8	Raymond Sterling	Sturgis Public School	$109,756
9	Ronald Ehlers	Sturgis Public School	$109,060
10	Stephanie Lemmer	Centreville Public Schools	$107,000
11	Jon Keyer	White Pigeon Community Schools	$102,589
12	Laura Pressly	Sturgis Public School	$99,435
13	Carrie Erlandson	White Pigeon Community Schools	$99,181
14	Michael Miller	Sturgis Public School	$98,952
15	Travis Walker	Constantine Public Schools	$98,760
16	Nicholas Herblet	Sturgis Public School	$98,502
17	Jill Snyder	Sturgis Public School	$98,467
18	Thomas Langdon	Sturgis Public School	$98,327
19	Michael Northrop	Glen Oaks Community College	$97,347
20	Benjamin Daugherty	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$96,595
21	Diane Talo	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$96,595
22	Thomas Cameron	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$96,350
23	James Wagner	Three Rivers Public Schools	$93,756
24	Carrie Balk	Three Rivers Public Schools	$92,596
25	Terisa Jones	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$91,671
26	Mark Adams	Sturgis Public School	$90,910
27	Robert Brooks	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$90,737
28	Susan Sleeper	Sturgis Public School	$90,019
29	Patricia Hagadorn	Sturgis Public School	$89,944
30	Cynthia Sprowl	Sturgis Public School	$89,880
31	Margie Caid	Constantine Public Schools	$89,775
32	Kamela Peterson	Sturgis Public School	$89,611
33	Heather George	Sturgis Public School	$89,118
34	Michelle McNamara	Glen Oaks Community College	$88,766
35	Shawn Griffith	Constantine Public Schools	$88,631
36	Susan Langdon	Sturgis Public School	$88,523
37	Raymond Bohm	Constantine Public Schools	$88,457
38	Harmonee McCrea	Sturgis Public School	$88,292
39	Penny Brockway	Colon Community School	$88,284
40	Nichole Nash	Three Rivers Public Schools	$88,251
41	Kevin Conner	Glen Oaks Community College	$88,176
42	Leasa Griffith	Mendon Community School	$87,082
43	Lisa Pointer-Seidner	Constantine Public Schools	$87,000
44	Emerson Green	Sturgis Public School	$86,390
45	Gregory Brooks	Sturgis Public School	$86,342
46	Karen Wegner	Sturgis Public School	$85,924
47	Ranee Conley	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$84,159
48	Jessica Barth	Constantine Public Schools	$83,366
49	Lynn Brand	Sturgis Public School	$83,282
50	Jennifer Graber	Three Rivers Public Schools	$82,971
51	Karen Bojanich	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$82,543
52	Matthew Hawkins	Centreville Public Schools	$82,000
53	Kevin Gave	Glen Oaks Community College	$81,604
54	James Lamb	Sturgis Public School	$81,230
55	Rebecca Stauffer	Centreville Public Schools	$80,649
56	Joel Moore Sr.	Three Rivers Public Schools	$80,216
57	Albert Metzger	Sturgis Public School	$80,189
58	Andrew Mains	Three Rivers Public Schools	$80,000
59	Matthew Stofer	Three Rivers Public Schools	$80,000
60	Christina Bainbridge	Constantine Public Schools	$79,962
61	Laura Penner	Sturgis Public School	$79,274
62	Eliot Gitelman	Sturgis Public School	$79,032
63	Elizabeth Weiss-Deboer	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$78,889
64	Jacqueline Yeomans	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$78,738
65	Jeffrey Cary	Sturgis Public School	$78,493
66	Keith Kurowski	Sturgis Public School	$78,392
67	Tonya Howden	Glen Oaks Community College	$78,183
68	Kenneth Schau	Sturgis Public School	$77,785
69	Brian Burg	Three Rivers Public Schools	$77,728
70	Ruth Bradley	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$77,634
71	Jane Tallmadge	Sturgis Public School	$77,604
72	Stephanie Harker Schau	Sturgis Public School	$77,570
73	Jeffrey Awe	Three Rivers Public Schools	$77,230
74	Jodie Scheid	Sturgis Public School	$77,115
75	Anne Bowen	Sturgis Public School	$77,033
76	Phillip Kellogg	Sturgis Public School	$76,553
77	Ellen Eisele	Sturgis Public School	$76,525
78	Darrin Vandenberg	Constantine Public Schools	$76,407
79	Shelly McBride	White Pigeon Community Schools	$76,358
80	Mari Campbell	Sturgis Public School	$76,311
81	Patricia Davidson	Sturgis Public School	$76,118
82	Sara Russell	Constantine Public Schools	$76,088
83	Eileen Scott	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$76,032
84	James Yoder	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$75,909
85	Walter Wheeler	Sturgis Public School	$75,829
86	Michael Tulley	Constantine Public Schools	$75,604
87	Audrey Green	Sturgis Public School	$75,599
88	Christina Johnson	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$75,190
89	Christa Conroy	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$75,190
90	Sharon Bippus	St. Joseph County Intermediate School District	$75,177
91	Pamela Keeslar	Sturgis Public School	$75,122
92	Thomas Roach	Sturgis Public School	$75,029
93	Teresa Smola	Three Rivers Public Schools	$74,984
94	George Earl	Sturgis Public School	$74,870
95	Robin Kubasiak	Sturgis Public School	$74,721
96	Carol Brooks	Sturgis Public School	$74,712
97	Jennifer Hackenberg	Three Rivers Public Schools	$74,711
98	Marc Kramer	Mendon Community School	$74,706
99	Hillary Harris	Three Rivers Public Schools	$74,683
100	Sherri Wheeler	Sturgis Public School	$74,677