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Massachusetts · 2025 pay

How much do Suffolk District Attorney (Massachusetts) employees make?

$65,969typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$40,200 – $93,781what 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: Civilian InvestigatorAda - Trial DivisionAda - Dorchester Division

✓ 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.

$39,715

$66,183

$93,797

$223,442

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 $47,877 in 2016 to $65,969 in 2025 (+38%).

What changed since 2024

  • +5.8%Typical pay went up from $62,338 to $65,969.
  • +6.3%Typical raise for the 295 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 38% got a raise of 10% or more.
  • 59 new59 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 51 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
  • +38%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $47,877 to $65,969, while the number of people paid went up from 330 to 354.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Suffolk District Attorney (Massachusetts)

10years of
official data
2016–2025
Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay$64,122
Overtime$0
Extra pay$2,061
Total for the year$66,183

Average of the 17 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

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

JobPeopleTypical payMost earnSince 2024
Civilian Investigator10$15,429$4k – $24knew
Ada - Trial Division8$86,420$81k – $88knew
Ada - Dorchester Division8$73,374$47k – $76k▲ 66.1%
Ada - Roxbury Division8$57,812$44k – $73k▼ 21.7%
Ada - Gang Unit7$107,938$97k – $110k▲ 5.3%
Ada - Homicide Unit5$124,575$121k – $140k▼ 0.0%
Assistant District Attorney5$114,404$103k – $122k▲ 55.3%
Victim Witness/Advocate - D.a5$99,413$84k – $123k▲ 41.4%
Ada - Bmc Central5$73,374$73k – $73k▲ 410.1%

How many people earn what

  • Under $10k16
  • $10k – $30k56
  • $30k – $50k52
  • $50k – $70k57
  • $70k – $90k72
  • $90k – $110k41
  • $110k – $150k46
  • $150k or more14

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

Common questions

How much does a Suffolk District Attorney (Massachusetts) employee make?

The typical employee was paid $65,969 in 2025: half of the 354 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $40,200 and $93,781.

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 (98.7% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (1.3%).

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