Massachusetts · 2025 pay
How much do Human Resources Division (Massachusetts) employees make?
$89,415typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$43,779 – $111,498what 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: Examiners/Monitors/GradersLeave Benefit CoordinatorSenior Wc Adjuster
✓ 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.
$42,873
$88,637
$112,128
$203,222
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 $73,968 in 2016 to $89,415 in 2025 (+21%).
What changed since 2024
- −3.8%Typical pay went down from $92,964 to $89,415.
- +6.5%Typical raise for the 170 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 32% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 52 new52 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 20 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +21%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $73,968 to $89,415, while the number of people paid went up from 154 to 222.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Human Resources Division (Massachusetts)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $86,976 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $1,661 |
| Total for the year | $88,637 |
Average of the 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Examiners/Monitors/Graders | 28 | $7,485 | $4k – $18k | ▼ 17.7% |
| Leave Benefit Coordinator | 24 | $36,564 | $34k – $42k | new |
| Senior Wc Adjuster | 10 | $100,590 | $91k – $102k | ▲ 8.2% |
| Investigator | 7 | $94,352 | $91k – $99k | ▲ 7.2% |
| Labor Counsel | 6 | $84,656 | $72k – $111k | ▲ 2.6% |
| Workers Compensation Counsel | 5 | $117,451 | $114k – $133k | new |
| Customer Service Specialist | 5 | $106,003 | $106k – $106k | new |
| HRIS Analyst | 5 | $102,478 | $65k – $102k | ▲ 7.1% |
| Human Resources Specialist II | 5 | $75,610 | $75k – $76k | ▲ 7.2% |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k17
- $10k – $30k14
- $30k – $50k33
- $50k – $70k13
- $70k – $90k35
- $90k – $110k47
- $110k – $150k41
- $150k or more22
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Human Resources Division in 2025
- 1Melissa PullinChief Human Resources Officer$203,222▲ $11,601 vs 2024
- 2Michele HeffernanDep Chro and Gen Counsel$188,844▲ $7,173 vs 2024
- 3John LanganDirector Office Employee Relations$181,026▲ $8,006 vs 2024
- 4Meghan SiskHr Executive Operations Administrator$179,904▲ $21,418 vs 2024
- 5Jean-Louis RochetDirector Strategy Appl and Research$179,442▲ $26,950 vs 2024
- 6Sandra BordersDirector Office of Division and Equal Opp$179,171▲ $6,151 vs 2024
- 7James CowdellChief of Staff$174,351new in 2025
- 8Melinda WillisDeputy General Counsel$160,669▲ $10,017 vs 2024
- 9Jolene BevereDirector Shared Services Center$160,271▲ $14,362 vs 2024
- 10Diana SilviaDirector of Beau$160,246▲ $14,662 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Human Resources Division (Massachusetts) employee make?
The typical employee was paid $89,415 in 2025: half of the 222 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $43,779 and $111,498.
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 (7.7%) 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 (98.6% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (1.4%).
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