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Four percent of employees at the Health Policy Commission made between $10,000-$25,000 in 2019, according to CTHRU. That’s 4 of employees out of 101.

24.8 percent of employees at Health Policy Commission made between $75,000-$100,000.

The national median hourly wage is $19.14 according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the OECD, the average yearly wage in the US is more than $60,000.

Rank	Individual	Department	Salary
1	Michael Collins	University of Massachusetts	$1,096,431
2	Mindy Hull	Chief Medical Examiner	$395,758
3	Michael Fiore	Department of State Police	$307,862
4	Francisco Cevallos	Framingham State University	$275,560
5	Thomas Hicks	Department of Mental Health	$274,795
6	David Nelson	Massachusetts College of Art and Design	$262,454
7	Richard Lapidus	Fitchburg State University	$260,671
8	Camille Colangelo	Department of Correction	$260,239
9	James Birge	Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts	$257,439
10	Ramon Torrecilha	Westfield State University	$256,995
11	Barry Maloney	Worcester State University	$255,792
12	Frederick Clark	Bridgewater State University	$251,100
13	Scott James	Salem State University	$248,734
14	Jeffrey Riley	Department of Elementary and Secondary Education	$243,317
15	Francis Mc Donald	Massachusetts Maritime Academy	$242,266
16	Jed Barash	Soldiers Home in Massachusetts	$238,780
17	Carlos Santiago	Department of Higher Education	$230,624
18	John Toomey	Department of Developmental Services	$228,780
19	Jean Poth	Northern Essex Community College	$226,464
20	Corry Carter	Suffolk County Sheriff's Department	$218,860
21	Ellen Kennedy	Berkshire Community College	$211,125
22	John Cox	Cape Cod Community College	$209,859
23	Patricia Gentile	North Shore Community College	$209,308
24	James Mabry	Middlesex Community College	$207,523
25	James Lamenzo	Public Employee Retirement Administration	$206,377
26	Ralph Gants	Supreme Judicial Court	$206,239
27	Michael Jones Cocchi	Center for Health Information and Analysis	$206,025
28	Laura Douglas	Bristol Community College	$204,714
29	David Podell	Massachusetts Bay Community College	$204,708
30	Valerie Roberson	Roxbury Community College	$203,800
31	Eric Baldwin	Executive Office of Environmental Affairs	$202,758
32	Gena Glickman	Massasoit Community College	$201,655
33	Luis Pedraja	Quinsigamond Community College	$200,700
34	Kenneth Woodland	State Auditors Office	$195,640
35	Mark Green	Appeals Court	$195,358
36	Stephen McCarthy	Norfolk County Sheriff's Department	$194,992
37	James MacDonald	Office of the State Treasurer	$186,747
38	Richard Goulding	Mass Rehabilitation Commission	$184,867
39	Charles Baker	Governors Office	$184,234
40	Glenn Cunha	Office of Inspector General	$183,473
41	Anita Jessen	Mass Cultural Council	$183,318
42	Maura Healey	Attorney General Office	$182,152
43	Joseph Early Jr.	Worcester (middle) District Attorney	$181,207
44	Anthony Benedetti	Committee for Public Counsel Services	$180,907
45	Marian Ryan	Middlesex (northern) District Attorney	$180,907
46	Timothy Cruz	Plymouth District Attorney	$180,907
47	Anthony Gulluni	Hampden District Attorney	$180,907
48	Michael Okeefe	Cape and Islands District Attorney	$180,907
49	Thomas Quinn	Bristol District Attorney	$180,907
50	Jonathan Blodgett	Eastern District Attorney	$180,907
51	Michael Morrissey	Norfolk District Attorney	$180,907
52	David Sullivan	Northwestern District Attorney	$180,907
53	Gary Keefe	Military Division	$180,115
54	Erika Glaster	Teachers Retirement Board	$178,728
55	Edward Brassil	Middlesex County Sheriff's Department	$178,246
56	William Galvin	Secretary of State	$177,473
57	Michael Sullivan	Campaign and Political Finance	$177,367
58	Mohammad Younus	Executive Office for Administration and Finance	$177,255
59	Andrea Harrington	Berkshire District Attorney	$176,288
60	John Quinn	Berkshire County Sheriff's Department	$175,845
61	Rachael Rollins	Suffolk District Attorney	$175,687
62	John McCarthy	Massachusetts School Building Authority	$175,317
63	Roberta Herman	Group Insurance Commission	$173,983
64	Leesa Berger	Soldiers Home in Holyoke	$172,964
65	Steven Hoffman	Cannabis Control Commission	$170,406
66	James Peyser	Executive Office of Education	$170,201
67	Rosalin Acosta	Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development	$170,201
68	Robert DeLeo	House of Representatives	$169,061
69	Karen Spilka	Senate	$169,061
70	Gary Lambert	Division of Operational Services	$168,028
71	Christopher Harding	Department of Revenue	$168,028
72	Michael Kennealy	Executive Office of Economic Development	$167,095
73	Brendan Murphy	Barnstable County Sheriff's Department	$166,801
74	Phillip Kassel	Mental Health Legal Advisors	$166,429
75	Marilyn Wellington	Board of Bar Examiners	$166,417
76	David Pierce	Department of Fish and Game	$162,962
77	Howard Neff	Commission on Judicial Conduct	$162,302
78	Coleen Elstermeyer	Health Policy Commission	$159,685
79	Paul Pak	Joint Legislative Expenditures	$159,000
80	Christopher Donelan	Franklin County Sheriff's Department	$158,659
81	Christopher Ross	Department of Environmental Protection	$157,648
82	Peter Ostroskey	Department of Fire Services	$156,249
83	Tara Maguire	District Attorney Association	$155,000
84	Patrick Cahillane	Hampshire County Sheriff's Department	$151,709
85	Thomas Hodgson	Bristol County Sheriff's Department	$151,709
86	Lewis Evangelidis	Worcester County Sheriff's Department	$151,709
87	Peter Forbes	Department of Youth Services	$151,076
88	Sunila George	Commission Against Discrimination	$147,450
89	Ronald Wetmore	Division of Professional Licensure	$147,323
90	Thomas Hammond	Appellate Tax Board	$146,019
91	Catherine Racer	Department of Housing and Community Development	$145,668
92	John Doane	State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board	$144,091
93	Nam Pham	Massachusetts Office of Business Development	$142,254
94	Maria Mossaides	Office of the Child Advocate	$140,000
95	Mitchell Sanborn	Mass Commission for the Blind	$133,159
96	Julie Westwater	Disabled Persons Protection Commission	$131,750
97	Francisco Urena	Department of Veterans Services	$131,716
98	Merrily Gerrish	Division of Banks	$130,599
99	Elvernoy Johnson	George Fingold Library	$129,865
100	Edward McGrath	Administrative Law Appeals Division	$128,921