South Kent News

Dino Paganelli made $78,785 in 2018 working as a public employee in Kent County, placing the worker in the 88th percentile of pay for Michigan public employees.

Dino Paganelli works for Wyoming Public Schools. The highest paid public employee in Kent County is Teresa Weatherall Neal who works for Grand Rapids Public Schools.

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 Kent County in 2018

Rank	Employee Name	Employer	Amount Earned
1	Teresa Weatherall Neal	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$265,790
2	Michael Shibler	Rockford Public Schools	$244,473
3	Michael Zoerhoff	Kentwood Public Schools	$213,554
4	Daniel Behm	Forest Hills Public Schools	$213,130
5	Sara Shubel	East Grand Rapids Public Schools	$207,861
6	Ronald Caniff	Kent County Intermediate School District	$207,017
7	Michael Pickard	Kentwood Public Schools	$205,125
8	Gregory Pratt	Lowell Area Schools	$199,418
9	Frank Conner	Grand Rapids Community College	$197,783
10	Evan Hordyk	Kentwood Public Schools	$191,000
11	Daniel Takens	Byron Center Public Schools	$189,263
12	Thomas Reeder	Wyoming Public Schools	$185,444
13	James Rodriguez	Caledonia Community Schools	$179,900
14	Rebecca Brinks	Grand Rapids Community College	$179,133
15	Roger Bearup	Grandville Public Schools	$178,087
16	Michael Hagerty	Kent County Intermediate School District	$176,962
17	Coni Sullivan	Kent County Intermediate School District	$176,400
18	Jeffrey Spoelman	Grand Rapids Community College	$175,247
19	Glenn Gelderloos	Grand Rapids Community College	$171,185
20	William Smith	Kent County Intermediate School District	$166,632
21	Ronald Koehler	Kent County Intermediate School District	$166,010
22	Margaret Sweeney-Fellinger	Forest Hills Public Schools	$164,873
23	Christine Annese	Forest Hills Public Schools	$164,373
24	William Fetterhoff	Godwin Heights Public Schools	$164,285
25	Lisa Freiburger	Grand Rapids Community College	$163,051
26	Julie Davis	Forest Hills Public Schools	$162,873
27	Laura Van Duyn	Cedar Springs Public Schools	$162,086
28	Cedric Williams	Grand Rapids Community College	$162,031
29	Laura Moody	Grand Rapids Community College	$161,528
30	Gary Ebels	Grand Rapids Community College	$160,966
31	Shirley Johnson	Kentwood Public Schools	$160,657
32	Michael Korpak	Northview Public Schools	$159,350
33	Jennifer Borrello	Grand Rapids Community College	$159,130
34	Thomas Boersma	Grand Rapids Community College	$157,638
35	Michael Cuneo	Rockford Public Schools	$157,031
36	Todd Bell	Kentwood Public Schools	$156,611
37	Stephen Abid	Grand Rapids Community College	$156,058
38	Garret Brand	Grand Rapids Community College	$155,609
39	Gordon Nickels	Sparta Area Schools	$155,128
40	Matthew Lewis	Wyoming Public Schools	$155,050
41	Nikolaos Antonakis	Grand Rapids Community College	$154,258
42	Douglas Vanderjagt	Rockford Public Schools	$152,742
43	Julie Bera	Grand Rapids Community College	$152,696
44	Felix Pereiro	Grand Rapids Community College	$152,393
45	Michael Devivo	Grand Rapids Community College	$152,160
46	William Millar	Grand Rapids Community College	$151,918
47	Mary Byerwalter	Grand Rapids Community College	$150,776
48	Gerald Hopkins	Kenowa Hills Public Schools	$150,627
49	John Doane	Grand Rapids Community College	$149,390
50	Michael Steinfort	Grand Rapids Community College	$149,311
51	Judith Bezile	Grand Rapids Community College	$149,041
52	Donna Kragt	Grand Rapids Community College	$147,996
53	Katie Vandermeer	Grand Rapids Community College	$147,715
54	Samuel Mickens	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$147,018
55	Debra Veltkamp	Grand Rapids Community College	$146,435
56	Ryan Kelley	Rockford Public Schools	$146,213
57	Michael Campo	Grand Rapids Community College	$145,880
58	David Anderson	Grand Rapids Community College	$145,123
59	Thomas Kaechele	Grand Rapids Community College	$144,539
60	Jianchu Chen	Grand Rapids Community College	$144,513
61	John Zielinski	Lowell Area Schools	$144,362
62	Matthew Douglas	Grand Rapids Community College	$143,981
63	Kenneth Smith	Grand Rapids Community College	$142,317
64	Kevin Macina	Byron Center Public Schools	$140,178
65	Yan Bai	Grand Rapids Community College	$140,003
66	Margaret Sesselmann	Grand Rapids Community College	$139,052
67	Julie Quillan	Grand Rapids Community College	$138,559
68	Donald Dahlquist	Kentwood Public Schools	$138,510
69	Julie Anderson	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$138,105
70	Richard Barnhart	Grand Rapids Community College	$137,676
71	Amy Bush	Forest Hills Public Schools	$137,569
72	Larry Johnson	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$137,510
73	Kristin Roberts	Grand Rapids Community College	$137,260
74	Kevin Philipps	East Grand Rapids Public Schools	$137,170
75	Sherry Knoppers	Grand Rapids Community College	$136,989
76	Scott Lampe	Grand Rapids Community College	$136,884
77	Tamera Powers	Byron Center Public Schools	$136,688
78	Melvin Atkins	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$136,541
79	Ethan Ebenstein	Comstock Park Public Schools	$136,332
80	Bernard Manker III	Grand Rapids Community College	$135,481
81	Darrell Kingsbury	Caledonia Community Schools	$134,961
82	Katherine Keating	Grand Rapids Community College	$134,864
83	Julie Hess	Grand Rapids Community College	$134,851
84	Pamela Laureto	Grand Rapids Community College	$134,739
85	Troy Walwood	Grand Rapids Community College	$134,545
86	Scott Joseph	Byron Center Public Schools	$134,538
87	Sharron Pitts	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$134,468
87	Lawrence Oberst	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$134,468
87	Mary Jo Kuhlman	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$134,468
87	Ronald Gorman	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$134,468
87	Carolyn Evans	Grand Rapids Public Schools	$134,468
92	Scott Merkel	Grandville Public Schools	$134,214
93	Michelle Richter	Grand Rapids Community College	$134,128
94	Stephen Hess	Grand Rapids Community College	$133,861
95	Karen Walker	Grand Rapids Community College	$133,800
96	Melanie Schiele-Gady	Grand Rapids Community College	$133,703
97	Kathryn Mullins	Grand Rapids Community College	$133,113
98	John Kraus	Kent County Intermediate School District	$132,836
99	Jon Gregory	Forest Hills Public Schools	$132,568
100	Kevin Polston	Godfrey-Lee Public Schools	$132,375