Kalamazoo Times

Tamarah Patterson made $82,863 in 2018 working as a public employee at Portage Public Schools, ranking the worker in the 91st percentile in terms of pay among Michigan public employees with available salary information.

Mark Bielang is the highest paid Portage Public Schools employee among employees whose salary information was made available.

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

Highest paid employees at Portage Public Schools in 2018

Rank	Employee Full Name	Amount Earned
1	Mark Bielang	$233,650
2	Mary Scott	$156,668
3	Ronald Herron	$140,780
4	Eric Alburtus	$131,728
5	James French	$131,528
6	Daniel Vomastek	$125,272
6	Karla Colestock	$125,272
8	Jeanine Mattson-Gearhart	$118,935
8	Michael Huber	$118,935
10	Michael Pascoe	$116,107
11	Bradley Galin	$115,838
12	Denny Roehm	$115,603
13	Clinton Wagner	$113,100
14	Elizabeth Hartman	$111,636
15	Christopher Riker	$111,532
16	Kim Lummis	$111,047
16	Jason Frink	$111,047
18	Travis Thomsen	$107,463
19	Nathan Ledlow	$105,479
20	David Laing	$104,686
21	Heather Yankovich	$104,027
22	Jeffrey Hamilton	$103,970
23	Daniel Wytko	$103,831
24	Peter Schermerhorn	$103,564
25	James Schafer III	$102,008
26	Joseph Wallace	$100,222
27	Patricia Steinert-Otto	$99,296
28	Kevin Doerfler	$99,080
29	Jeremy Zonts	$98,707
29	Kelly Jensenius	$98,707
29	Lori Benedict-Kirshman	$98,707
32	Shane Deridder	$96,019
33	Craig Medd	$94,013
34	Carla Kelly	$93,250
35	Nancy Martin	$93,222
36	Justin Walker	$93,128
37	Melvin Freeland	$93,027
38	Mary Roobol	$93,013
39	Matthew Galer	$90,730
40	Peggy Link	$90,470
41	Amy Gray	$90,253
42	John Dunlop	$90,244
43	Catherine Laurencig	$90,239
44	Donald Vanhoeven	$90,184
45	Michelle Greene	$89,888
46	Karen Prater	$89,483
47	Rhonda Vanderveen	$89,122
48	Kathy Mirakovits	$89,034
49	Patricia Tibble	$88,908
50	Douglas Wilson	$88,812
51	Patrick Flynn	$88,650
52	Amy Dimaggio	$88,632
53	Kelly Hinga	$88,613
54	Anne Gordon	$88,395
55	Robert Eustice	$88,368
56	Cynthia Hunter	$88,222
57	James Lait	$88,171
58	Michael Westbrook	$88,170
59	Shari Smith	$88,130
60	Stephanie Wagner	$87,912
61	Jeanna Walker	$87,860
62	Denise Hettinger	$87,828
63	Daniel Higgason	$87,629
64	Ahren Kaylor	$87,381
65	Jennifer Bonner	$87,306
66	Christine Gaines	$87,086
67	Nancy Nott	$86,968
68	Kathleen Phipps	$86,802
69	Randall Hebner	$86,765
70	Richard Hazen	$86,738
71	Janet Lavasseur	$86,504
72	Jennifer Taffee	$86,405
73	Pamela McGuire	$86,150
74	Lisa Buchinger Aldrich	$86,094
75	Andria Carson-Wright	$85,734
76	Steven Phelps	$85,597
77	Brett Foerster	$85,576
78	William Dygert	$85,510
79	Jon Taylor	$85,507
80	Viola Stiverson	$85,432
81	Shannon Schippers	$85,347
82	Celia Weeks	$85,138
83	Valerie Abbott	$85,003
84	Kenneth Haughn	$84,980
85	Laura Crocker	$84,739
86	Marcella Vanwinkle	$84,612
87	John Fitzpatrick	$84,570
88	Patrick Fitzhenry	$84,490
89	Beth Taylor	$84,486
90	Carolynn Meyers	$84,410
91	Mary Rogers	$84,248
92	Robin St. Arnauld	$84,236
93	Martha Keeler	$84,222
94	Michele Morrison	$84,199
95	Christopher Andrews	$84,183
96	Kristen Gavlas	$84,109
97	Lori Taylor	$84,025
98	Lisa Jepson	$84,011
99	Virginia Doerfler	$83,889
100	Amy Lehman	$83,881