Tri-City Sun

Antonio Garza earned $33,971 in 2019, 5.6 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Bay County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Trisha O'Connor's compensation of $99,715 was the most as a public employee in Bay 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	Trisha O'Connor	Delta College	$99,715	$95,344	4.6%
2	Linda Plackowski	Delta College	$99,621	$100,313	-0.7%
3	Thomas Bennett	Delta College	$99,380	$96,673	2.8%
4	William Wood	Delta College	$99,248	$96,592	2.7%
5	Barbara Handley-Miller	Delta College	$99,052	$100,709	-1.6%
6	Michael Thayer	Bay City Public Schools	$98,890	$97,651	1.3%
7	Stephen Sevener	Bay City Public Schools	$98,286	$98,889	-0.6%
8	Amy Bailey	Bay City Public Schools	$98,017	$96,143	1.9%
9	Eric Beckman	Delta College	$97,889	$102,474	-4.5%
10	Adna Howell	Delta College	$97,675	$96,053	1.7%
11	Michelle Kennedy	Bay City Public Schools	$97,349	$98,392	-1.1%
12	Nicole Napolitano	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$97,346	$93,807	3.8%
13	Andrew Kowalczyk	Bay City Public Schools	$97,131	$89,546	8.5%
14	Jennifer Niester-Mika	Delta College	$97,032	$95,643	1.5%
15	Peter Carlson	Delta College	$97,005	$101,056	-4%
16	John FolsomIII	Bay City Public Schools	$96,716	$93,722	3.2%
17	Sharon Bernthal	Delta College	$96,694	$89,831	7.6%
18	Peter RemingtonJr.	Bangor Township Schools	$96,517	$89,791	7.5%
19	Denise Hill	Delta College	$96,497	$94,684	1.9%
20	Elizabeth Beauchamp	Delta College	$96,436	$98,192	-1.8%
21	Daisy McQuiston	Delta College	$96,407	$95,701	0.7%
22	Mary Roberson	Delta College	$96,144	$98,933	-2.8%
23	Timothy Heinz	Delta College	$96,109	$96,808	-0.7%
24	Donovan Traverse	Delta College	$95,982	$95,391	0.6%
25	Jodiann Stevenson	Delta College	$95,732	$96,690	-1%
26	Nicole Ryan	Delta College	$95,388	$91,253	4.5%
27	Mary Goodnow	Delta College	$263,327	$247,171	6.5%
28	Deborah Kadish	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$160,580	$144,125	11.4%
29	Stephen Bigelow	Bay City Public Schools	$155,896	$153,000	1.9%
30	Matthew Schmidt	Bangor Township Schools	$150,000	$150,000	0%
31	Margarita Mosqueda	Delta College	$147,393	$142,361	3.5%
32	Sarah Dufresne	Delta College	$141,010	$111,914	26%
33	Heidi Helgren	Delta College	$140,991	$139,480	1.1%
34	Pamela Clark	Delta College	$135,955	$131,732	3.2%
35	Bruce Curtiss	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$129,361	$120,485	7.4%
36	Michael Vieau	Pinconning Area Schools	$127,834	$119,853	6.7%
37	Michael Faleski	Delta College	$127,426	$117,824	8.1%
38	John Mertz	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$124,330	$118,485	4.9%
39	Raymond Lacina	Delta College	$123,357	$123,302	0%
40	Brad Deroche	Delta College	$121,882	$118,102	3.2%
41	Lisa O'Laughlin	Delta College	$121,417	$115,825	4.8%
42	Janis Kendziorski	Delta College	$121,095	$115,922	4.5%
43	Andrea Ursuy	Delta College	$118,416	$104,005	13.9%
44	Dennis Roebuck	Delta College	$117,366	$112,268	4.5%
45	Ronald Sharp	Delta College	$117,072	$113,849	2.8%
46	Antoinette Clegg	Delta College	$116,980	$121,282	-3.5%
47	Renee Hoppe	Delta College	$116,888	$102,908	13.6%
48	Rebecca Smith	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$116,628	$108,160	7.8%
49	Cynthia Drouse	Delta College	$116,265	$115,005	1.1%
50	Crystal Starkey	Delta College	$116,205	$112,861	3%
51	Gretchen Wagner	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$116,128	$107,660	7.9%
52	Beth Heyart	Delta College	$115,967	$109,563	5.8%
53	Thomas Boudrot	Delta College	$115,273	$121,166	-4.9%
54	Phoebe Lutz	Delta College	$115,177	$114,670	0.4%
55	James MillerJr.	Delta College	$114,908	$100,678	14.1%
56	Matthew Eyre	Delta College	$114,773	$120,165	-4.5%
57	Brent Pashak	Delta College	$114,526	$108,474	5.6%
58	Michael Pressler	Delta College	$114,019	$94,291	20.9%
59	Dawn Fairchild	Delta College	$112,981	$111,721	1.1%
60	Judith Cox	Bay City Public Schools	$112,814	$111,668	1%
61	Wendy Szafranski	Delta College	$112,700	$114,424	-1.5%
62	Steven Rosin	Delta College	$112,580	$108,548	3.7%
63	Jill Harrison	Delta College	$112,555	$106,321	5.9%
64	Kimberly Klein	Delta College	$112,402	$97,016	15.9%
65	Diane Lobsiger-Braden	Delta College	$112,240	$107,573	4.3%
66	Brian Dufresne	Bay-Arenac Intermediate School District	$111,865	$108,691	2.9%
67	Timothy Marciniak	Bay City Public Schools	$111,777	$110,651	1%
68	Habib Kheil	Delta College	$110,229	$109,100	1%
69	Beth Zieman	Delta College	$109,878	$109,343	0.5%
70	Amy French	Delta College	$109,719	$106,447	3.1%
71	Nathan Blecke	Delta College	$109,304	$103,370	5.7%
72	David Baskind	Delta College	$109,207	$111,922	-2.4%
73	Virginia Przygocki	Delta College	$109,076	$105,605	3.3%
74	Terry Morse	Delta College	$108,124	$107,256	0.8%
75	Jonathan Majchrzak	Delta College	$107,124	$100,748	6.3%
76	Susan Harvey	Delta College	$106,797	$95,876	11.4%
77	Carla Derocher	Bay City Public Schools	$106,769	$107,304	-0.5%
78	Stuart Barbier	Delta College	$106,672	$107,033	-0.3%
79	Laura Dull	Delta College	$106,588	$110,226	-3.3%
80	Matthew Cortez	Essexville-Hampton Public Schools	$106,338	$105,914	0.4%
81	Barbara Webb	Delta College	$106,318	$121,056	-12.2%
82	Patrick Truszkowski	Delta College	$106,077	$101,862	4.1%
83	Lisa Lawrason	Delta College	$105,866	$103,470	2.3%
84	Timothy Allen	Delta College	$105,712	$95,080	11.2%
85	Kathie Marchlewski	Delta College	$105,541	$101,324	4.2%
86	Randall Nichols	Delta College	$105,396	$103,449	1.9%
87	Phillip Heller	Bay City Public Schools	$105,261	$106,484	-1.1%
88	Bernadette Harkness	Delta College	$105,070	$105,316	-0.2%
89	Brian Johnson	Bay City Public Schools	$104,449	$103,199	1.2%
90	Karol Syring	Delta College	$104,322	$99,947	4.4%
91	Kristopher Howery	Delta College	$104,155	$95,616	8.9%
92	Cynthia Drake	Delta College	$104,071	$105,277	-1.1%
93	Brian Aldrich	Delta College	$103,200	$105,400	-2.1%
94	James Proctor	Delta College	$103,044	$110,673	-6.9%
95	Karen Randolph	Delta College	$102,419	$103,221	-0.8%
96	Gregory Teter	Delta College	$102,004	$105,458	-3.3%
97	Kevin Dehne	Delta College	$101,340	$100,699	0.6%
98	Lori Ziolkowski	Delta College	$101,245	$98,426	2.9%
99	Janet Alexander	Delta College	$100,636	$98,630	2%
100	Paula Cornell	Delta College	$100,232	$104,101	-3.7%