West Massachusetts News

An average worker earned $38,316 at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke during 2020, according to CTHRU.

This is less than the public employee average of $52,254.

The highest-paid public employee in Massachusetts is Matthew McCall, who earned $850,750 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	Vanessa Gosselin	$177,171
2	Jodie Alaimo	$144,805
3	Robert Byrne	$140,878
4	Victoria Ciano	$140,146
5	Joseph Grab	$139,882
6	Barry Smith	$138,367
7	Leesa Berger	$132,152
8	Sandra Marino	$130,773
9	Jennifer DeWitt	$128,013
10	Kelly Hansen	$117,088
11	Alan Munro	$112,016
12	Barry Izenstein	$106,725
13	Kelli M Wohlers	$106,614
14	Mark Yankopoulos	$104,497
15	Daniel Daley	$101,180
16	Celeste Surreira	$100,861
17	Robert Malikin	$100,758
18	Ann Nelson	$100,613
19	Camille Balestri	$99,769
20	Lynne Gidarakos	$99,523
21	Margaret Feyre	$98,591
22	John Fydenkevez	$98,249
23	Jeremy Meade	$98,033
24	Debbie McMahon	$97,099
25	Joan Miller	$94,456
26	Alina Koziol	$90,812
27	Kim Korovae	$89,134
28	Rebeccah Krajewski	$88,646
29	Norman Gousy	$88,462
30	David Clinton	$85,794
31	Scott Zacharie	$85,459
32	Bennett Walsh	$85,308
33	Cynthia Cormier	$84,189
34	Samuel Darkwa	$83,916
35	Tandy Thomas	$83,091
36	Denise Coughlin	$82,653
37	Paulette Fraser	$82,537
38	Laura Corbin	$82,297
39	Glade Hall	$81,469
40	Kim Soule	$81,186
41	Mary Bergeron	$81,138
42	Sherry Ferrier	$80,955
43	Robyn Fowler	$80,829
44	Valerie Gaze	$80,653
45	Terri Gustafson	$80,543
46	Ann Chenail	$79,316
47	Theresa King	$79,019
48	Karin Finnerty	$78,831
49	Linda Betley	$78,447
50	Anne Taft	$77,914
51	Angelo Proietti	$77,855
52	Carrie Forrant	$77,158
53	Gregory Girolamo	$77,104
54	Dawn Turcotte	$74,919
55	Mary Sullivan	$73,479
56	Frederick Szlosek	$72,458
57	Debra Foley	$69,462
58	Phuong Mazza	$69,426
59	Erika Scoble	$68,896
60	Carrie Olbrych	$68,397
61	Magaly King	$68,289
62	Lynn A Vieau	$67,775
63	Sheila Serra	$67,725
64	Lyubov Sheremet	$67,570
65	Yvonne Hill	$67,445
66	Katherine Hill	$67,180
67	David Sharrow	$66,944
68	Veronica McClellan	$66,002
69	Colleen Bartlett	$64,320
70	Shirley Donkor	$64,138
71	Kathleen Bauer	$64,117
72	Angela Dickinson	$63,923
73	Lath Chien	$63,863
74	Lisa Hayden	$63,612
75	Denise Annino	$63,163
76	Patricia Foley	$62,687
77	Debra Ragoonanan	$61,862
78	Phyllis Darkwa	$61,671
79	Jeremy Guinipero	$61,588
80	Laura Bachand	$61,211
81	Carolyn Rogers Harris	$61,160
82	Samuel Darko	$60,935
83	Lynn Lacombe	$60,869
84	Thomas Lingenberg	$60,850
85	Herve Pierre Jacques	$60,387
86	Richard Nowak	$60,103
87	Iris Alvarez	$60,000
88	Sophia Darkowaa	$59,606
89	Barbara Henchey	$59,101
90	Nancy Shimel	$58,950
91	Courtney Cottle	$58,413
92	Ann O Donnell	$58,308
93	Shante Barnett	$58,181
94	Jessica Potvin	$57,570
95	Leonard Moskal	$56,950
96	Marie Flynn	$56,888
97	Grace Rodriques	$56,147
98	Issac Mirzay	$55,643
99	Jillian Orzechowski	$55,130
100	Lourdes Reyes	$55,050