Massachusetts · 2025 pay
How much do Military Division (Massachusetts) employees make?
$1,000typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$400 – $55,423what 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: National GuardInstallation Security OfficerFirefighter - EMT
✓ 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.
$400
$1,011
$55,404
$225,504
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 $390 in 2016 to $1,000 in 2025 (+156%).
What changed since 2024
- −94.8%Typical pay went down from $19,200 to $1,000.
- +0.6%Typical raise for the 631 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 25% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 377 new377 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 514 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- −94%Since 2023, typical pay has gone from $15,600 to $1,000, while the number of people paid went down from 1,165 to 1,008.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Military Division (Massachusetts)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $1,011 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $1,011 |
Average of the 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Guard | 687 | $600 | $0k – $1k | ▼ 84.2% |
| Installation Security Officer | 34 | $63,528 | $57k – $71k | ▲ 4.8% |
| Firefighter - EMT | 33 | $103,731 | $86k – $115k | ▲ 6.2% |
| Environmental Service Specialist III | 23 | $60,382 | $50k – $61k | ▲ 3.2% |
| Maintenance Equipment Operator II | 19 | $76,320 | $61k – $79k | ▲ 3.2% |
| Program Coordinator III | 18 | $111,498 | $89k – $121k | ▲ 8.1% |
| Program Coordinator II | 15 | $94,752 | $73k – $101k | ▲ 10.9% |
| Program Coordinator I | 12 | $71,959 | $60k – $91k | ▼ 2.0% |
| Firefighter - Lt - EMT | 10 | $122,682 | $120k – $125k | ▼ 1.4% |
| Environmental Analyst IV | 7 | $111,336 | $103k – $123k | ▲ 1.9% |
| Environmental Service Specialist II | 7 | $46,448 | $45k – $51k | ▲ 5.8% |
| Carpenter II | 6 | $68,433 | $60k – $77k | ▼ 1.6% |
| Captain | 5 | $151,179 | $151k – $160k | ▼ 1.2% |
| Environmental Analyst V | 5 | $133,931 | $130k – $137k | new |
| Assistant Adjutant Genl Pay of Grd | 5 | $116,748 | $96k – $167k | new |
| Firefighter | 5 | $109,428 | $96k – $112k | ▲ 24.8% |
| Electrician II | 5 | $94,704 | $92k – $95k | ▲ 0.8% |
| Hvac Refrig Mechanic II | 5 | $66,100 | $64k – $76k | ▲ 3.1% |
| Environmental Service Specialist IV | 5 | $27,125 | $22k – $50k | new |
| Post Retiree | 5 | $13,260 | $2k – $16k | ▼ 24.3% |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k623
- $10k – $30k55
- $30k – $50k60
- $50k – $70k79
- $70k – $90k66
- $90k – $110k46
- $110k – $150k64
- $150k or more15
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Military Division in 2025
- 1Gary KeefeAdjutant General$225,504▲ $4,429 vs 2024
- 2Virginia GaglioAssistant Adjut Gen/Ex Officer/Payofgrd$187,231▲ $13,583 vs 2024
- 3Dennis RagazziniFire Chief$179,281▼ $12,570 vs 2024
- 4Jason ObertonAssistant Adjutant Genl Pay of Grd$177,888▲ $5,519 vs 2024
- 5Mark KalinQuartermaster Pay of Grade$175,667▲ $28,335 vs 2024
- 6Nathan KearnsState Judge Advocate$175,245▲ $137,585 vs 2024
- 7Thomas ClarkAssistant Adjutant Genl Pay of Grd$166,837▲ $11,005 vs 2024
- 8Eric WestonDeputy Fire Chief$162,542▼ $19,689 vs 2024
- 9Jason OrlowskiCaptain$160,513▲ $7,437 vs 2024
- 10Scott ChicoineCaptain$159,956▲ $26,320 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Military Division (Massachusetts) employee make?
The typical employee was paid $1,000 in 2025: half of the 1,008 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $400 and $55,423.
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. 623 people (61.8%) 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 (93.5% of all pay), overtime (4.6%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (1.9%).
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