West Massachusetts News

An average worker earned $24,422 at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke during 2021, according to CTHRU.

This is less 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	Daniel Daley	$80,628
2	Kelly Hansen	$78,425
3	Victoria Ciano	$76,652
4	Linda Lariviere	$74,193
5	Leslie Wilson	$73,981
6	Barry Smith	$73,556
7	Jodie Alaimo	$73,328
8	Robert Byrne	$71,538
9	Sandra Marino	$71,116
10	Kathleen Newman	$69,916
11	Joseph Grab	$69,840
12	Michelle Camano	$68,719
13	Camille Balestri	$68,217
14	Michael Lazo	$67,846
15	Glen Hevy	$67,308
16	Aimee Desmarais	$67,308
17	Jennifer DeWitt	$65,484
18	Leesa Berger	$63,123
19	Anne Taft	$62,715
20	Mark Nino Batitis	$62,067
21	Emily Boronski	$60,343
22	Alan Munro	$60,290
23	Debra Foley	$55,229
24	Barry Izenstein	$54,410
25	Richard Polwrek	$53,846
26	Jeremy Meade	$53,770
27	Jessica Powers	$53,756
28	Robyn Fowler	$53,429
29	Samuel Darkwa	$52,840
30	Emily Moriarty	$52,032
31	Dawn Turcotte	$51,905
32	Diane Dietzen	$51,085
33	Debbie McMahon	$50,215
34	Margaret Feyre	$49,744
35	Kim Korovae	$48,955
36	Brandy Gridley	$48,127
37	Joan Miller	$47,605
38	Kim Soule	$46,213
39	Caitlin Menard	$45,500
40	Scott Zacharie	$45,011
41	Mark Yankopoulos	$44,651
42	Roseanne Brewer	$43,712
43	Kimberly St Pierre	$43,682
44	Glade Hall	$42,665
45	Alina Koziol	$42,317
46	Sherry Ferrier	$42,125
47	Laura Corbin	$41,926
48	Mary Smith	$41,799
49	Kathleen Bauer	$41,734
50	Tandy Thomas	$41,644
51	Barbara Henchey	$41,554
52	Valerie Gaze	$41,213
53	Josephine Aidoo Forson	$40,992
54	Denise Coughlin	$40,937
55	Laura Ann Taylor	$40,652
56	Cynthia Cormier	$40,568
57	Terri Gustafson	$40,341
58	Carrie Forrant	$40,341
59	Cheryl Blow	$40,165
60	Paulette Fraser	$39,578
61	Theresa King	$39,469
62	Frederick Szlosek	$39,360
63	Karin Finnerty	$38,993
64	Mary Bergeron	$38,977
65	Kara Smith	$38,706
66	Ann Chenail	$38,521
67	Magaly King	$38,319
68	Jennifer Fay	$38,260
69	Cathi Powers	$37,962
70	Lucy Odeyemi	$37,456
71	Phyllis Darkwa	$37,118
72	Brian Murray	$36,888
73	Carol Laflamme	$36,816
74	Erika Scoble	$36,779
75	Gregory Girolamo	$36,546
76	Sheila Serra	$36,536
77	Amy DiNicola	$36,055
78	Manuel Santiago	$35,850
79	Katherine Hill	$35,662
80	Melinda Stone	$35,233
81	Shirley Donkor	$34,821
82	Mashanna George	$34,517
83	Angela Dickinson	$34,253
84	Lyubov Sheremet	$34,173
85	Lynn A Vieau	$33,991
86	Lynn Lacombe	$33,703
87	Michael Lynch	$33,627
88	Patricia Foley	$33,511
89	Issac Mirzay	$33,227
90	Lath Chien	$33,196
91	Carolyn Rogers Harris	$32,578
92	Colleen Bartlett	$32,470
93	Richard Nowak	$32,310
94	Nancy Shimel	$32,305
95	Gertrude Teals	$32,136
96	Thomas Lingenberg	$32,108
97	Veronica McClellan	$31,810
98	Halina Beben	$31,613
99	Hannah Sullivan	$31,236
100	Robert Fox	$31,082