Massachusetts · 2025 pay

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

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

$112,759typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$78,580 – $146,040what 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 Officer Jail Officer Correction Officer - Corporal

✓ 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.

$78,198

$112,396

$145,544

$344,028

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 $73,640 in 2016 to $112,759 in 2025 (+53%).

Typical payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+13.1%Typical pay went up from $99,739 to $112,759.
+7.4%Typical raise for the 908 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 41% got a raise of 10% or more.
110 new110 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 147 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
+53%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $73,640 to $112,759, while the number of people paid went down from 1,142 to 1,018.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Sheriff Department Suffolk (Massachusetts)

10years of
official data
2016–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$84,865
Overtime	$23,081
Extra pay	$4,449
Total for the year	$112,396

Average of the 51 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 Suffolk

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

28¢
Of every dollar Sheriff Department Suffolk paid in 2025, about 28 cents was overtime.
Usual among the 8 other police, sheriff and corrections employers in Massachusetts in our data: about 12 cents. Highest of 9.
The data shows what was paid, not why. Overtime is pay for hours beyond the regular schedule.
+39%
Since 2016, total pay at Sheriff Department Suffolk went up 39% while the number of people paid went down 11%.
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
Correction Officer	335	$111,757	$68k – $147k	▲ 16.5%
Jail Officer	142	$112,334	$96k – $132k	▲ 14.6%
Correction Officer - Corporal	96	$130,225	$107k – $152k	▲ 10.7%
Jail Officer - Sergeant	50	$136,547	$109k – $154k	▲ 4.1%
Correction Officer - Sergeant	48	$141,453	$118k – $169k	▲ 4.0%
Correction Officer -Lieutenant	40	$161,251	$141k – $182k	▼ 0.7%
Senior Administrative Assist	37	$78,557	$56k – $86k	▲ 27.2%
Management Assistant	36	$65,326	$58k – $74k	▲ 22.2%
Social Worker	32	$64,030	$35k – $76k	▲ 3.1%
Jail Officer - Lieutenant	24	$150,227	$140k – $168k	▲ 4.3%
Correction Officer - Captain	23	$213,889	$185k – $246k	▲ 4.1%
Administrative Supervisor	16	$99,375	$99k – $101k	▲ 4.2%
Assistant Deputy Superintendent	13	$135,835	$100k – $136k	▲ 4.4%
Senior Management Assistant	12	$81,584	$78k – $99k	▲ 14.5%
Jail Officer - Corporal	10	$115,969	$102k – $125k	▼ 4.6%
Investigator	10	$90,727	$72k – $93k	▲ 2.9%
Jail Officer - Captain	9	$181,313	$159k – $216k	▲ 15.6%
Administrative Assistant	8	$43,124	$19k – $53k	▼ 11.6%
Superintendent	7	$163,518	$162k – $168k	▲ 2.7%
Custodian	7	$47,918	$47k – $65k	▲ 134.6%
Chief Administrative Assistant	6	$82,903	$52k – $93k	▼ 6.7%
Contractor - Chaplain	6	$34,141	$31k – $35k	▲ 58.2%
Contractor - Admin Consultant	6	$9,864	$7k – $13k	▼ 15.7%

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How many people earn what

Under $10k33
$10k – $30k74
$30k – $50k41
$50k – $70k72
$70k – $90k104
$90k – $110k166
$110k – $150k299
$150k or more229

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

Common questions

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

The typical employee was paid $112,759 in 2025: half of the 1,018 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $78,580 and $146,040.

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 (68.7% of all pay), overtime (27.5%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (3.7%).

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