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Massachusetts · 2025 pay

How much do Civil Service Commission (Massachusetts) employees make?

$65,399typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$9,955 – $134,425what most people earned

Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.

Office of the Comptroller (CTHRU) publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.

Common jobs:

✓ Official data from Office of the Comptroller (CTHRU)Matches the agency's latest releasemacomptroller.org ↗

Is pay going up?

Yes. Typical pay went from $9,253 in 2016 to $65,399 in 2025 (+607%).

What changed since 2024

  • +30.6%Typical pay went up from $50,079 to $65,399.
  • +4.0%Typical raise for the 9 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 22% got a raise of 10% or more.
  • 5 new5 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 5 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
  • +171%Since 2021, typical pay has gone from $24,125 to $65,399, while the number of people paid went up from 12 to 14.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

JobPeopleTypical payMost earn

How many people earn what

  • Under $10k4
  • $10k – $30k2
  • $30k – $50k1
  • $50k – $70k0
  • $70k – $90k0
  • $90k – $110k1
  • $110k – $150k5
  • $150k or more1

Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.

Common questions

How much does a Civil Service Commission (Massachusetts) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $65,399 in 2025: half of the 14 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $9,955 and $134,425.

Why do so many people earn very little?

The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 4 people (28.6%) were paid under $10,000.

Who counts as a full-year employee?

"Employed all year" means the person was on the state payroll the previous year, has no service end date during the year, and received at least 90% of their published annual rate as base pay.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (100.0% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.0%).

Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?

From Massachusetts Office of the Comptroller (macomptroller.org). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the agency updates it every pay period.

"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. "Employed all year" means the person was on the state payroll the previous year, has no service end date during the year, and received at least 90% of their published annual rate as base pay. Hire and end dates are used only to work this out; we don't store or publish them. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals