Massachusetts · 2025 pay
How much do Emergency Management Agency (Massachusetts) employees make?
$95,009typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$36,115 – $105,925what 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: Local CoordinatorProgram Coordinator IICommunications Dispatcher
✓ Official data from Office of the Comptroller (CTHRU)Matches the agency's latest releasemacomptroller.org ↗
How is pay spread across workers?
A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.
$32,181
$94,696
$105,790
$185,290
Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers
Typical workerright in the middle
Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers
Highest paidone person
Regular payOvertimeExtra pay
Is pay going up?
Yes. Typical pay went from $69,200 in 2016 to $95,009 in 2025 (+37%).
What changed since 2024
- +6.8%Typical pay went up from $88,977 to $95,009.
- +5.7%Typical raise for the 113 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 27% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 15 new15 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 9 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +37%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $69,200 to $95,009, while the number of people paid went up from 102 to 128.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Emergency Management Agency (Massachusetts)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $85,567 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $5,796 |
| Extra pay | $3,332 |
| Total for the year | $94,696 |
Average of the 7 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Coordinator | 13 | $97,827 | $94k – $115k | ▲ 4.8% |
| Program Coordinator II | 11 | $88,331 | $82k – $104k | ▼ 4.9% |
| Communications Dispatcher | 9 | $95,147 | $77k – $96k | ▲ 13.3% |
| Program Coordinator III | 6 | $109,646 | $104k – $114k | ▲ 8.1% |
| Virtual Emergency Managem | 6 | $3,886 | $2k – $6k | new |
| Post Retiree | 5 | $39,038 | $28k – $39k | new |
| Contract Instructors/Lecturers | 5 | $22,516 | $19k – $26k | ▲ 44.4% |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k17
- $10k – $30k14
- $30k – $50k7
- $50k – $70k4
- $70k – $90k14
- $90k – $110k46
- $110k – $150k22
- $150k or more4
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Emergency Management Agency in 2025
- 1Dawn BrantleyDirector of Mema$185,290▲ $7,038 vs 2024
- 2Brian RushlowFacilities and Fleet Unit Super$169,133▲ $13,065 vs 2024
- 3Amy HughesGeneral Counsel$162,542▲ $6,174 vs 2024
- 4Patrick CarnevaleMema Dep Director$161,382▲ $6,130 vs 2024
- 5Richard Latour JrAssistant Director for Operations$137,208▲ $5,212 vs 2024
- 6Simon VanleeuwenAssistant Director Recovery and Mitigation$131,262▲ $4,986 vs 2024
- 7David BryantAssistant Director Planning and Preparedne$128,738▲ $6,911 vs 2024
- 8Todd ZukowskiLocal Coordinator$126,938▲ $4,045 vs 2024
- 9Benjamin HiltunenRegional Planner IV$123,936▲ $7,226 vs 2024
- 10Sara ZalieckasSpecial Events Planning P$123,804▲ $11,335 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Emergency Management Agency (Massachusetts) employee make?
The typical employee was paid $95,009 in 2025: half of the 128 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $36,115 and $105,925.
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. 17 people (13.3%) 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 (92.0% of all pay), overtime (4.9%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (3.1%).
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