Bean Town Times

An average worker earned $47,014 at the Office of the Comptroller during 2021, according to CTHRU.

This is more than the public employee average of $33,048.

The highest-paid public employee in Massachusetts is Matthew McCall, who earned $602,866 as the Head Basketball Coach at the University of Massachusetts.

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	Employee	Amount Earned
1	William McNamara	$95,105
2	Jeffrey Shapiro	$94,473
3	Howard Merkowitz	$88,998
4	Christopher Guido	$85,996
5	Peter Murphy	$83,079
6	Amy Nable	$78,077
7	Kevin McHugh	$75,202
8	Kristine Hill Jones	$75,202
9	Jaime Medina	$73,299
10	Evanice Torres	$70,000
11	Jeannette Hedderman	$69,016
12	Peter Scavotto	$69,016
13	Kristin Lacroix	$68,451
14	Michael Rodino	$68,451
15	Melissa Diorio	$68,385
16	Pauline Lieu	$66,754
17	William Weiss	$64,885
18	Tryntje Bumgardner	$64,885
19	Wing Chan	$64,803
20	Catherine Quan	$64,615
21	Thomas Smith Vaughan	$63,183
22	Tatiana Peralta	$63,183
23	Kathryn Kendall	$63,183
24	Leon Stroschein	$62,134
25	Odile Breton	$61,923
26	Kathleen Lambert	$61,260
27	Eric Mom	$61,200
28	Zong Zhou Guan	$60,456
29	Robert Pashkowsky	$59,596
30	Timothy O Neill	$59,443
31	Moses Kalemba	$58,861
32	Kannarom Kem	$58,473
33	Victoria Klimochkin	$58,380
34	Alfred Russo	$58,223
35	Eduardo Canton	$58,154
36	Joan Jennings	$57,673
37	Aprel Mccabe	$57,615
38	Jessie Zuberek	$56,538
39	Xuan Luong	$56,474
40	Jessica Cogswell	$56,395
41	Samuel Moy	$54,623
42	Stefanie Rucker	$54,377
43	Jane Christopher	$54,377
44	Anthony Yee	$54,377
44	Daniel Frisoli	$54,377
44	Biruk Gebreamlak	$54,377
44	James Box	$54,377
44	Rita Tucker	$54,377
49	Leonard Montone	$54,377
50	Elizabeth Hemond	$54,192
51	George Anastos	$53,803
52	Debra Carty	$53,311
53	Kathleen O Connell	$53,311
54	Maria Santos	$53,199
55	Irina Ovchinnicova	$52,863
56	Maureen Keating	$52,113
57	John Newell	$51,998
58	Michael Sangalang	$51,154
59	Angelo DeBortoli	$51,112
60	Roberta Kaplan	$50,752
61	Stacy Hoag	$50,529
62	Gene Tenaglia	$50,336
63	Ralph Deparolisa	$50,290
64	Wagdy Rizk	$50,272
65	Frances Eddy	$50,161
66	Fred DiPhillipo	$50,040
67	Kirti Patel	$49,969
68	Monica Middleton	$49,744
69	Stephanie Pires	$49,744
70	Kim Doan	$49,744
70	Alice Kyeba	$49,744
70	Patricia Davis	$49,744
73	Ivy Chen	$49,744
74	Maria Erenburg	$49,744
75	Toni Ivers	$49,744
76	Sukeshini Sampath	$49,508
77	Manlei Pun	$49,474
78	Samuel Childs	$49,269
79	Somu Rajeswari	$48,664
80	Parris Kyriakakis	$48,462
81	John Scully	$48,096
82	Tran Truong	$47,826
83	Stephen Willett	$46,301
84	Scott Claussen	$45,938
85	Catherine Hunter	$45,011
85	Sharon Chosse	$45,011
85	Jerry Stephenson	$45,011
85	Kraig Keady	$45,011
89	Susan Dubin	$45,011
90	Christine Bender	$45,011
90	Jonathan Dearborn	$45,011
92	Theresa Zalewski	$45,011
92	Shailesh Shah	$45,011
94	Anubha Khankari	$44,488
95	Sara Qudah	$43,747
96	Valerie Ford	$43,641
97	Betsy Alvarez	$43,068
98	Debora Giacchino	$42,200
99	Amy Rucker	$41,673
100	Renee Coleman	$41,584