Massachusetts · 2025 pay

How much do Sheriff Department Barnstable (Massachusetts) employees make?

Name: Sheriff Department Barnstable (Massachusetts) employee pay 2025
Creator: PublicPayData

$104,984typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$48,236 – $129,999what 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: Corrections Officer G-1 Telecomm/Signal Operator Correction Officer G-2

✓ 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.

$48,805

$104,691

$130,383

$257,020

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 $75,211 in 2016 to $104,984 in 2025 (+40%).

Typical payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+11.2%Typical pay went up from $94,410 to $104,984.
+9.6%Typical raise for the 330 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 49% got a raise of 10% or more.
70 new70 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 73 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
+40%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $75,211 to $104,984, while the number of people paid went up from 364 to 400.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Sheriff Department Barnstable (Massachusetts)

10years of
official data
2016–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$76,716
Overtime	$20,124
Extra pay	$7,851
Total for the year	$104,691

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 Sheriff Department Barnstable

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

+9.6%
People paid by Sheriff Department Barnstable in both 2024 and 2025 saw their pay change by a typical +9.6%.
Usual among the 11 other police, sheriff and corrections employers in Massachusetts in our data: +6.6%.
Compares the same people in both years, so new hires and leavers do not move it. Overtime and hours worked count too.
5 of 10
For 5 of the 10 highest paid at Sheriff Department Barnstable, overtime was more than a third of their pay (Corrections Officer G-1, Corrections Officer G-4, Correction Officer G-2).
On regular pay alone, 5 of them would not have made the top 10.
+49%
Since 2016, total pay at Sheriff Department Barnstable went up 49% while the number of people paid went up 10%.
Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

Job	People	Typical pay	Most earn	Since 2024
Corrections Officer G-1	155	$107,255	$65k – $125k	▲ 5.7%
Telecomm/Signal Operator	32	$106,193	$48k – $122k	▲ 9.6%
Correction Officer G-2	22	$132,543	$120k – $138k	▲ 14.3%
Corrections Officer G-4	17	$139,395	$134k – $167k	new
Telecomm - Contr	11	$11,255	$5k – $29k	▲ 42.3%
Sergeant Telecomm/Sig Operator	10	$146,845	$136k – $171k	▲ 8.6%
Criminal Identification Office	9	$104,968	$97k – $110k	▼ 0.7%
Lpns	8	$91,156	$83k – $125k	new
Intern - Contractor	8	$3,421	$3k – $4k	▲ 7.8%
Captain	6	$133,883	$129k – $176k	▲ 1.5%
Rns	5	$32,198	$28k – $96k	new

How many people earn what

Under $10k26
$10k – $30k50
$30k – $50k27
$50k – $70k18
$70k – $90k37
$90k – $110k60
$110k – $150k132
$150k or more50

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

Common questions

How much does a Sheriff Department Barnstable (Massachusetts) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $104,984 in 2025: half of the 400 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $48,236 and $129,999.

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. 26 people (6.5%) 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 (73.9% of all pay), overtime (18.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (8.0%).

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