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Deborah Cooper earned $71,079 in 2019, 1.3 percent more than the previous year, working as a public employee in Lapeer County, according to the Michigan Government Salaries Database.

Robert DowneyIII's compensation of $99,404 was the most as a public employee in Lapeer 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	Robert DowneyIII	Lapeer Public Schools	$99,404	$103,283	-3.8%
2	Jeanette Ciaramella	Lapeer Public Schools	$99,356	$88,584	12.2%
3	Dale Moore	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$99,303	$98,319	1%
4	Amy Maruca	Lapeer Public Schools	$98,928	$96,309	2.7%
5	Kimberly Von Hiltmayer	Almont Community Schools	$98,722	$99,848	-1.1%
6	Tamara Hyatt	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$96,971	$96,221	0.8%
7	Leilani Ward	Lapeer Public Schools	$96,785	$84,838	14.1%
8	Anne Prill	Lapeer Public Schools	$95,395	$85,569	11.5%
9	Gregory Irwin	Imlay City Community Schools	$95,164	$94,138	1.1%
10	Megan Cottone	Imlay City Community Schools	$94,484	$90,616	4.3%
11	Kimberly Wixon	Imlay City Community Schools	$94,481	$80,072	18%
12	Corey Rosser	North Branch Area Schools	$94,373	$93,239	1.2%
13	Susan Miller	Lapeer Public Schools	$94,353	$93,691	0.7%
14	Noelle Cole	Lapeer Public Schools	$93,901	$88,556	6%
15	Matthew Nowak	Lapeer Public Schools	$93,414	$90,941	2.7%
16	Cynthia Howe	North Branch Area Schools	$93,303	$97,453	-4.3%
17	Amber White	North Branch Area Schools	$93,162	$86,378	7.9%
18	Aneta Lawrence	Lapeer Public Schools	$93,062	$67,515	37.8%
19	Oscar Rodriguez	Lapeer Public Schools	$92,911	$92,127	0.9%
20	Theodore Tomczyk	Lapeer Public Schools	$91,904	$78,419	17.2%
21	Amy Bosma	Imlay City Community Schools	$91,697	$78,988	16.1%
22	Michael Wiltse	Lapeer Public Schools	$91,095	$89,825	1.4%
23	Wyatt Stevens	Lapeer Public Schools	$91,056	$88,989	2.3%
24	Gregory Matheson	North Branch Area Schools	$90,999	$90,999	0%
25	Jennifer Szlachta	Almont Community Schools	$90,222	$88,740	1.7%
26	Erik Johnson	Almont Community Schools	$90,203	$83,323	8.3%
27	Casey Rich	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$90,177	$86,708	4%
28	Sara Taylor	Lapeer Public Schools	$88,638	$78,086	13.5%
29	Katie Jordan	Lapeer Public Schools	$88,513	$82,542	7.2%
30	Ann Schwieman	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$88,512	$87,635	1%
31	Theresa Frakes	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$88,452	$87,576	1%
32	Kelly Myers	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$87,388	$82,832	5.5%
33	Shannon Francis	Lapeer Public Schools	$87,010	$78,933	10.2%
34	Jenny Buhl-Hagey	Imlay City Community Schools	$86,964	$79,912	8.8%
35	Theresa Roberts	Lapeer Public Schools	$86,962	$83,971	3.6%
36	Kathryn Hayes	Lapeer Public Schools	$86,820	$77,760	11.7%
37	Lori Dick	Imlay City Community Schools	$85,840	$75,617	13.5%
38	Susan Frederiksen	Almont Community Schools	$85,637	$84,913	0.9%
39	Jill Campbell	Imlay City Community Schools	$85,551	$83,900	2%
40	Kelly Ross	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$85,534	$83,016	3%
41	Robert Beebe	Imlay City Community Schools	$85,509	$81,617	4.8%
42	Bridgette Miller	Lapeer Public Schools	$85,180	$73,227	16.3%
43	Carrie Smith	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$85,110	$88,127	-3.4%
44	Aaron Dickie	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$84,939	$68,412	24.2%
45	Ritchie Feys	Almont Community Schools	$84,665	$84,200	0.6%
46	Andrew Roberts	Lapeer Public Schools	$84,382	$89,708	-5.9%
47	John Sherman	North Branch Area Schools	$84,262	$84,153	0.1%
48	Don Hammond	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$84,039	$82,716	1.6%
49	Cheryl Butterfield	Lapeer Public Schools	$83,991	$78,879	6.5%
50	Juliann Kent	Imlay City Community Schools	$83,989	$83,965	0%
51	Bryan Sahr	Lapeer Public Schools	$83,941	$88,032	-4.6%
52	Duane Machesney	Lapeer Public Schools	$83,863	$85,196	-1.6%
53	Kathleen Schweickert	Dryden Community Schools	$83,700	$73,538	13.8%
54	Diane Dove	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$83,580	$81,703	2.3%
55	Lesley Bruder	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$83,363	$82,538	1%
55	Heather Giguere	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$83,363	$83,028	0.4%
57	Shirley Harris-Carlson	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$82,954	$82,133	1%
58	Mark Newell	Dryden Community Schools	$82,941	$80,929	2.5%
59	Lisa Vanloon	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$82,880	$77,085	7.5%
60	Donald Heeke	Imlay City Community Schools	$82,321	$80,735	2%
61	Erica Niemi	Lapeer Public Schools	$82,279	$78,459	4.9%
62	Katie Josef	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$82,186	$80,961	1.5%
63	Douglas Sloan	Imlay City Community Schools	$82,166	$75,494	8.8%
64	Cheryl Shifflett-Smith	Lapeer Public Schools	$82,067	$81,642	0.5%
65	Kim Perreault	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,847	$79,512	2.9%
66	Patrick Lothrop	Lapeer Public Schools	$81,764	$79,239	3.2%
67	Brenda Weingartz	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$81,758	$80,844	1.1%
68	Jaime Ratliff	Lapeer Public Schools	$81,726	$67,131	21.7%
69	Trisha Niemi	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,691	$78,748	3.7%
70	Daniel Cook	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,687	$79,277	3%
71	Jeff Lorenz	Lapeer Public Schools	$81,646	$81,548	0.1%
72	Jamie Siglow	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,617	$79,422	2.8%
73	Teresa Kandell	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,545	$80,019	1.9%
74	Tiffany Dyer	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,478	$80,691	1%
75	Timothy Schultz	Imlay City Community Schools	$81,441	$77,208	5.5%
76	Matthew Wandrie	Lapeer Public Schools	$173,000	$181,000	-4.4%
77	Steven Zott	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$140,000	$137,360	1.9%
78	Stuart Cameron	Imlay City Community Schools	$139,405	$137,029	1.7%
79	Mark Rajter	Lapeer Public Schools	$135,000	$130,000	3.8%
80	James Fish	North Branch Area Schools	$125,594	$125,594	0%
81	Charles Madden	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$125,067	$124,019	0.8%
82	William Kalmar	Almont Community Schools	$123,600	$123,600	0%
83	Brian Eddy	Imlay City Community Schools	$122,537	$117,282	4.5%
84	Daniel AllenJr.	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$118,150	$117,170	0.8%
85	Dina Tallis	Imlay City Community Schools	$117,907	$118,252	-0.3%
86	Mary Finnigan	Dryden Community Schools	$116,630	$116,105	0.5%
87	Michele Pfeiffer	Lapeer Public Schools	$113,807	$87,856	29.5%
88	Kimberly Seifferly	Lapeer Public Schools	$112,519	$112,519	0%
89	Patrick Brown	Imlay City Community Schools	$112,140	$108,450	3.4%
90	Michelle Proulx	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$110,443	$100,556	9.8%
91	Michelle Bradford	Lapeer Public Schools	$108,700	$108,700	0%
92	Kenneth Janczarek	Lapeer Public Schools	$106,233	$108,969	-2.5%
93	Cheryl Porter	Lapeer County Intermediate School District	$105,834	$104,786	1%
94	Russell Reitz	Lapeer Public Schools	$104,909	$93,581	12.1%
95	Jennifer Tindall	Lapeer Public Schools	$104,493	$104,493	0%
96	Douglas Lindsay	Lapeer Public Schools	$103,803	$104,911	-1.1%
97	Shadwin Spilski	Lapeer Public Schools	$103,773	$103,773	0%
98	Mark Hiltunen	North Branch Area Schools	$102,647	$103,122	-0.5%
99	Jeffrey Stanton	Lapeer Public Schools	$101,867	$100,751	1.1%
100	Scott Warren	Lapeer Public Schools	$100,635	$99,935	0.7%