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Massachusetts · 2025 pay

How much do Senate (Massachusetts) employees make?

$74,623typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$38,320 – $103,254what 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: Senate DefaultSenator

✓ 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.

$37,092

$74,772

$102,265

$223,720

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 $43,000 in 2016 to $74,623 in 2025 (+74%).

What changed since 2024

  • −1.2%Typical pay went down from $75,539 to $74,623.
  • +4.8%Typical raise for the 308 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 31% got a raise of 10% or more.
  • 93 new93 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 54 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
  • +74%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $43,000 to $74,623, while the number of people paid went up from 381 to 401.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Senate (Massachusetts)

10years of
official data
2016–2025
Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay$74,256
Overtime$0
Extra pay$517
Total for the year$74,772

Average of the 20 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.

Official source: Massachusetts Office of the Comptroller, macomptroller.org ↗
Matches the agency's latest release

Worth knowing about pay at Senate

What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.

  • 9 of 10

    9 of the 10 highest paid at Senate got most of their pay as extra pay, not regular salary.

    The source does not say what the extra pay was. It can include back pay, bonuses or payouts for unused leave when someone leaves.

  • +79%

    Since 2016, total pay at Senate went up 79% while the number of people paid went up 5%.

    Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

JobPeopleTypical payMost earnSince 2024
Senate Default358$71,862$33k – $89k▲ 1.0%
Senator43$156,726$134k – $179k▲ 10.3%

How many people earn what

  • Under $10k52
  • $10k – $30k32
  • $30k – $50k32
  • $50k – $70k62
  • $70k – $90k95
  • $90k – $110k44
  • $110k – $150k46
  • $150k or more38

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

Common questions

How much does a Senate (Massachusetts) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $74,623 in 2025: half of the 401 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $38,320 and $103,254.

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. 52 people (13.0%) 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 (88.1% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (11.9%).

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