Massachusetts · 2025 pay
How much do Sheriff Department Middlesex (Massachusetts) employees make?
$97,582typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$71,084 – $114,147what 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: Correction OfficerContract Employee - SheriffSergeant
✓ 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.
$70,607
$97,674
$114,255
$225,795
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 $73,900 in 2016 to $97,582 in 2025 (+32%).
What changed since 2024
- +4.9%Typical pay went up from $93,030 to $97,582.
- +6.1%Typical raise for the 687 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 33% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 92 new92 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 98 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +32%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $73,900 to $97,582, while the number of people paid went up from 770 to 779.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Sheriff Department Middlesex (Massachusetts)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $81,206 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $5,268 |
| Extra pay | $11,201 |
| Total for the year | $97,674 |
Average of the 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correction Officer | 368 | $98,926 | $85k – $110k | ▲ 3.7% |
| Contract Employee - Sheriff | 93 | $6,261 | $2k – $20k | ▼ 36.8% |
| Sergeant | 52 | $114,801 | $105k – $128k | ▲ 6.7% |
| Assistant Deputy Superintendent | 17 | $139,694 | $129k – $149k | ▲ 5.7% |
| Lieutenant | 17 | $128,370 | $119k – $146k | ▲ 3.3% |
| Correction Officer/Recruit | 14 | $20,966 | $11k – $23k | ▲ 4.8% |
| Assistant Deputy Superintendent II | 10 | $154,163 | $151k – $156k | ▲ 7.2% |
| Case Manager | 10 | $109,841 | $105k – $112k | ▲ 11.1% |
| Mental Health Worker | 10 | $76,996 | $35k – $85k | ▼ 3.4% |
| Assistant Deputy Superintendent I | 9 | $148,983 | $143k – $160k | ▲ 6.8% |
| Civil Process Clerk | 7 | $12,818 | $13k – $41k | ▼ 77.7% |
| Assistant Superintendent | 6 | $158,132 | $157k – $160k | ▼ 2.9% |
| Investigator | 5 | $113,605 | $108k – $116k | ▲ 7.9% |
| Mental Health Clinician | 5 | $109,434 | $109k – $112k | new |
| Administrative Assistant | 5 | $70,952 | $70k – $91k | new |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k63
- $10k – $30k58
- $30k – $50k37
- $50k – $70k32
- $70k – $90k132
- $90k – $110k216
- $110k – $150k199
- $150k or more42
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Sheriff Department Middlesex in 2025
- 1Amoroso CefaloSuperintendent$225,795▲ $8,586 vs 2024
- 2Michael SouzaAssistant Deputy Superintendent I$207,078▲ $35,639 vs 2024
- 3Peter KoutoujianSheriff - Sdm$198,500▲ $0 vs 2024
- 4Osvaldo VidalSuperintendent/Billerica$195,757▼ $9,540 vs 2024
- 5William LeducSergeant$195,005▲ $19,176 vs 2024
- 6Michael MahoneySuperintendent/Billerica$194,812▲ $25,768 vs 2024
- 7George KarelasCaptain$191,399▼ $840 vs 2024
- 8Kara RyanChief Legal Counsel$189,969▲ $5,609 vs 2024
- 9Bridget CookChief of Staff/Cfo$189,419▲ $3,932 vs 2024
- 10Richard VivierAssistant Deputy Superintendent II$176,634▲ $2,740 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Sheriff Department Middlesex (Massachusetts) employee make?
The typical employee was paid $97,582 in 2025: half of the 779 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $71,084 and $114,147.
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. 63 people (8.1%) 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 (82.0% of all pay), overtime (7.4%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (10.6%).
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