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Cassandra Hertter made $1,746 in 2018 working as a public employee in Cass County, placing the worker in the fifth percentile of pay for Michigan public employees.

Cassandra Hertter works for Dowagiac-Union School District. The highest paid public employee in Cass County is Sherman Ostrander who works for Edwardsburg 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 Cass County in 2018

Rank	Employee Name	Employer	Amount Earned
1	Sherman Ostrander	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$257,531
2	Brenton Holcomb	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$169,950
3	Paul Hartsig	Dowagiac-Union School District	$131,654
4	Dawn Conner	Dowagiac-Union School District	$122,547
5	Angela Piazza	Cassopolis Public Schools	$113,723
6	James Knoll	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$113,715
7	Tina Wimberley	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$104,166
8	Daniel Nommay	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$98,682
9	Kelly Millin	Dowagiac-Union School District	$98,451
10	Ryan Markel	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$96,138
11	Anne Flautt	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$95,600
12	Deborah Becraft	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$95,275
13	Jeffrey Dennis	Southwestern Michigan College	$95,215
14	Stacy Ritchie	Dowagiac-Union School District	$93,677
15	Nanette Pauley	Marcellus Community Schools	$91,712
16	Sean Wightman	Dowagiac-Union School District	$91,390
17	Jeffrey Kozinski	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$90,117
18	Rebecca Crocker	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$87,305
19	Carrie McGuire	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$86,673
20	Lloyd Hamilton	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$86,228
21	Sara Park	Dowagiac-Union School District	$86,125
22	Kevin Bartz	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$86,002
23	Kara Cox	Dowagiac-Union School District	$85,634
24	Jeffrey Jasper	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$84,977
25	Deeann Voss	Cassopolis Public Schools	$84,790
26	David Vanlue	Cassopolis Public Schools	$84,560
27	Donna Canter	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$84,150
28	Brian Clements	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$84,063
29	Joshua Townsley	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$83,954
30	Larry Hanks Jr.	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$82,890
31	James Zarycki	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$82,516
32	Michael Campbell	Dowagiac-Union School District	$82,173
33	Heather Nash	Dowagiac-Union School District	$82,173
34	Joanne Strebeck	Southwestern Michigan College	$82,137
35	Katrina Daiga	Dowagiac-Union School District	$82,105
36	Sally Brueck	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$81,715
37	Cathy Stone	Dowagiac-Union School District	$81,423
38	Randall Gross	Dowagiac-Union School District	$80,673
39	Jon Pryor	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$80,586
40	Michael Churchill	Dowagiac-Union School District	$80,355
41	Cari Soderbloom	Dowagiac-Union School District	$80,313
42	Albert Gaideski	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$80,261
43	Christine Hunt	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$79,944
44	Mikki Spagnoli	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$79,659
45	Michele Derenzy	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$79,597
46	Bryan Henry	Dowagiac-Union School District	$79,355
47	Lynn Anderson	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$79,337
48	Kimberly Bartz	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$79,231
49	Melinda Bohan	Marcellus Community Schools	$78,962
50	Lisa Hoppenrath	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$78,888
51	Daniel Vandenheede	Dowagiac-Union School District	$78,505
52	Michael Behnke	Dowagiac-Union School District	$78,383
53	Kimberly Linton	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$77,734
54	Donald Price II	Marcellus Community Schools	$77,656
55	Patrick Lyle	Dowagiac-Union School District	$77,470
56	Rebecca Turner	Dowagiac-Union School District	$77,089
57	Carrie Rabbitt	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$77,038
58	Joshua Bourne	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$76,715
59	Steven Hurt	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$75,926
60	Katrina Hargreaves-Lee	Dowagiac-Union School District	$75,863
61	Keith Klann	Dowagiac-Union School District	$75,448
62	Debra Green	Southwestern Michigan College	$75,361
63	Jacqueline Carter	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$75,123
64	Sharon Eaton	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$74,825
65	Judy Frank	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$74,794
66	Michael Stanger	Dowagiac-Union School District	$74,406
67	Brent Nate	Dowagiac-Union School District	$74,364
68	Andrew Jordan	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$74,260
69	Matthew Brawley	Cassopolis Public Schools	$74,101
70	Lisa Sherman	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$73,986
71	Nichole Hulett	Dowagiac-Union School District	$73,980
72	Michael Williams	Dowagiac-Union School District	$73,764
73	Jennings Brosnan	Dowagiac-Union School District	$73,758
74	Lynn Crocker-Wagner	Marcellus Community Schools	$73,428
75	Kim Stevenson	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$73,041
76	Denise Stockwell	Dowagiac-Union School District	$72,469
77	Nancy Clase	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$72,427
78	John Eberhart	Southwestern Michigan College	$72,255
79	Leon Letter	Southwestern Michigan College	$72,161
80	Elizabeth Gunn	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$71,893
81	Melissa Phillips	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$71,825
82	Joan Smith	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$71,751
83	David De Cou	Marcellus Community Schools	$71,631
84	Jody Miller	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$71,594
85	Jeffrey Wernette	Cassopolis Public Schools	$71,566
86	Catherine Wood	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$71,540
87	Michael Marcks	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$71,405
88	Betsy Sidenbender	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$71,081
89	Jennifer Wyant	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$70,980
90	Laura Butt-Stambek	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$70,970
91	Kimberly Bellaire	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$70,955
92	Donald Ludman	Southwestern Michigan College	$70,697
93	Beth Devenney	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$70,682
94	Kevin Dean	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$70,462
95	Cecily Ogden	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$70,415
96	Elizabeth Moyer	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$70,188
97	Michelle Kaminski	Lewis Cass Intermediate School District	$70,022
98	Leslie Ostrander	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$69,772
99	Robert Wright	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$69,624
100	Deborah Williams	Edwardsburg Public Schools	$69,529