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Wendy Granquist earned $54,259 in 2018, 10.4 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Caledonia County.

Bruce Tapio's compensation of $88,500 was the most as a public employee in Caledonia County in 2018.

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

Rank	Employee	Employer	2018 amount earned	2017 amount earned	Percent Change
1	Bruce Tapio	North Central Area Schools	88,500	96,252	-8.1%
2	Elizabeth Tucker	North Central Area Schools	58,673	59,102	-0.7%
3	Deanna Krieg	North Central Area Schools	54,396	54,083	0.6%
4	Victoria Snyder	North Central Area Schools	54,294	52,695	3%
5	Matthew Stein	North Central Area Schools	54,292	54,880	-1.1%
6	Wendy Granquist	North Central Area Schools	54,259	49,128	10.4%
7	Lawrence Labonte	North Central Area Schools	54,098	54,307	-0.4%
8	Sherry Martin	North Central Area Schools	52,580	52,396	0.4%
9	Cheryl Ekberg	North Central Area Schools	52,363	51,806	1.1%
10	Brett Harter	North Central Area Schools	45,250	42,634	6.1%
11	Jennifer Eichmeier	North Central Area Schools	43,508	16,988	156.1%
12	William Rinne	North Central Area Schools	42,528	33,751	26%
13	Jessica Veeser	North Central Area Schools	41,751	40,991	1.9%
14	Cheryl Proksch	North Central Area Schools	40,110	39,753	0.9%
15	Dorothy Debelak	North Central Area Schools	37,586	36,033	4.3%
16	Thomas Thomann	North Central Area Schools	37,037	35,881	3.2%
17	Emily Westphal	North Central Area Schools	35,702	37,873	-5.7%
18	Kyle Durow	North Central Area Schools	35,135	34,708	1.2%
19	Brittany Dubord	North Central Area Schools	34,911	34,378	1.5%
20	Julie Clarkston	North Central Area Schools	33,493	34,373	-2.6%
21	Trisha Hongisto	North Central Area Schools	32,302	31,867	1.4%
22	Lois Marsicek	North Central Area Schools	26,247	25,469	3.1%
23	Deborah Maule	North Central Area Schools	26,064	25,060	4%
24	Karen Gorzinski	North Central Area Schools	23,513	21,156	11.1%
25	Brenda Kleiman	North Central Area Schools	23,328	28,548	-18.3%
26	Doreen Fazer	North Central Area Schools	20,991	19,415	8.1%
27	Sandy Hanchek	North Central Area Schools	20,104	19,957	0.7%
28	Robert Hanchek	North Central Area Schools	19,877	20,031	-0.8%
29	Cherie Granquist	North Central Area Schools	19,687	19,350	1.7%
30	Bonnie Triest	North Central Area Schools	18,560	18,723	-0.9%
31	Jalaine Bellmore	North Central Area Schools	18,269	18,316	-0.3%
32	Shannon Pavlat	North Central Area Schools	18,250	18,390	-0.8%
33	Susan Poupore	North Central Area Schools	18,213	17,633	3.3%
34	Sandra Ammel	North Central Area Schools	17,751	19,631	-9.6%
35	Carri Delliss	North Central Area Schools	17,552	13,485	30.2%
36	Donna Dombrowski	North Central Area Schools	11,892	7,029	69.2%
37	Shirley Schoen	North Central Area Schools	8,008	28,261	-71.7%
38	Tracy Hammar	North Central Area Schools	7,671	47,738	-83.9%
39	Cody Hamilton	North Central Area Schools	7,153	62,000	-88.5%
40	Kevin Bellefeuil	North Central Area Schools	4,605	4,605	0%
41	Amy Kleikamp	North Central Area Schools	4,030	709	468.4%
42	Lee Vincent	North Central Area Schools	3,720	2,912	27.7%
43	David Granquist	North Central Area Schools	3,703	3,703	0%
44	Lynn Britton	North Central Area Schools	3,100	1,478	109.7%
45	Christina Strauss	North Central Area Schools	2,296	2,568	-10.6%
46	Jeffrey Rynesh	North Central Area Schools	2,059	1,221	68.6%
47	Leo Gorzinski	North Central Area Schools	1,931	1,931	0%
48	Tricia Dani	North Central Area Schools	1,930	2,453	-21.3%
49	Denise Poupore	North Central Area Schools	1,520	2,841	-46.5%
50	Melissa Mercier	North Central Area Schools	1,392	2,158	-35.5%
51	Kathryn Gingras	North Central Area Schools	1,240	715	73.4%
52	Andrew Fazer	North Central Area Schools	930	709	31.2%
53	Robert Linder	North Central Area Schools	709	709	0%