Sally Payne

Interim Director of Workforce Development, City of Springfield

Sally Payne is the Interim Director of Workforce Development for the City of Springfield Missouri in the Ozark Region. She has been employed by the City since 2008 after several years as a cost accountant in the private sector. Her Workforce career began with the Finance team as the Accounting Supervisor and was promoted to the Fiscal Administrator in 2013. In July of 2015 she was directly promoted to the position of Assistant Director where she managed the Skills, Career Services, Youth and Missouri Work Assistance Team Supervisors and their respective programs. She has led such projects as the Build My Future inaugural event, development of the Job Center Career Closet, creation of Job Center North in Zone 1. She was named Interim Director December 2019. Sally has a B.S in Economics from Missouri State University.