Massachusetts · 2025 pay
How much do Westfield State University (Massachusetts) employees make?
$29,904typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$5,637 – $78,853what 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: Contracted Seasonal EmployeesMsca Visiting LecturerProfessor
✓ 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.
$5,705
$29,597
$78,955
$309,839
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 $17,051 in 2016 to $29,904 in 2025 (+75%).
What changed since 2024
- −17.2%Typical pay went down from $36,133 to $29,904.
- +4.5%Typical raise for the 1,169 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 30% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 319 new319 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 216 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +75%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $17,051 to $29,904, while the number of people paid went down from 1,636 to 1,488.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Westfield State University (Massachusetts)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $28,836 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $168 |
| Extra pay | $593 |
| Total for the year | $29,597 |
Average of the 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracted Seasonal Employees | 378 | $3,630 | $1k – $9k | ▼ 19.6% |
| Msca Visiting Lecturer | 148 | $24,881 | $13k – $35k | ▲ 10.4% |
| Professor | 117 | $120,538 | $109k – $138k | ▼ 1.0% |
| Sc Adjunct Faculty | 114 | $8,013 | $4k – $14k | ▼ 24.8% |
| State Coll Non Unit Visit Lect | 86 | $6,423 | $5k – $11k | ▲ 7.0% |
| Staff Assistant | 71 | $60,571 | $49k – $69k | ▲ 3.5% |
| Associate Professor | 49 | $100,238 | $89k – $114k | ▼ 2.8% |
| Maintainer I | 49 | $53,179 | $47k – $58k | ▲ 13.4% |
| Staff Associate | 40 | $67,528 | $59k – $77k | ▲ 0.6% |
| Administrative Assistant II | 35 | $71,627 | $62k – $81k | ▼ 1.7% |
| Assistant Director | 34 | $79,264 | $71k – $87k | ▲ 3.9% |
| Director | 32 | $110,727 | $104k – $118k | ▲ 5.4% |
| Associate Director | 28 | $96,597 | $87k – $103k | ▲ 4.4% |
| Assistant Professor | 27 | $74,401 | $66k – $89k | ▼ 6.1% |
| Contracted Faculty | 26 | $2,872 | $1k – $5k | ▼ 4.3% |
| Work Study | 16 | $3,600 | $3k – $4k | ▲ 81.8% |
| Administrative Assistant I | 15 | $56,342 | $54k – $73k | ▼ 0.7% |
| Maintainer III | 14 | $68,295 | $60k – $78k | ▼ 0.2% |
| Dining Room Attendant | 13 | $38,995 | $35k – $48k | ▲ 9.8% |
| Campus Police Officer I | 11 | $91,862 | $82k – $117k | ▲ 7.0% |
| Staff Associate Nonunit | 11 | $83,010 | $69k – $86k | ▲ 25.0% |
| Executive Director | 10 | $130,720 | $121k – $147k | ▼ 3.1% |
| Maintenance Equipment Operator | 8 | $63,688 | $60k – $70k | ▲ 19.6% |
| Dining Hall Supervisor | 8 | $50,228 | $25k – $51k | ▲ 16.2% |
| Dean | 7 | $158,872 | $126k – $174k | new |
| Director Nonunit | 7 | $100,888 | $89k – $104k | ▲ 14.1% |
| Edp Systems Analyst I | 7 | $87,657 | $74k – $92k | ▲ 0.0% |
| Accountant II | 7 | $65,987 | $63k – $72k | ▼ 2.6% |
| Associate Vice President | 6 | $157,635 | $149k – $168k | ▼ 1.1% |
| Hvac Refrig Mechanic II | 6 | $83,177 | $77k – $94k | ▲ 3.8% |
| Vice President | 5 | $205,665 | $177k – $224k | ▲ 46.2% |
| Assistant Librarian | 5 | $89,352 | $70k – $110k | new |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k491
- $10k – $30k253
- $30k – $50k130
- $50k – $70k164
- $70k – $90k163
- $90k – $110k114
- $110k – $150k129
- $150k or more44
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Westfield State University in 2025
- 1Linda ThompsonPresident$309,839▲ $20,547 vs 2024
- 2William SalkaProvost$248,738▲ $141,661 vs 2024
- 3Robert HayesProfessor$231,990▼ $11,576 vs 2024
- 4Stephen TaksarVice President$230,884▲ $8,770 vs 2024
- 5Kevin HearnVice President$224,196▲ $8,516 vs 2024
- 6Michael FreemanExecutive Assistant to the President$209,420▲ $15,308 vs 2024
- 7Melinda PhelpsVice President$205,665▲ $151,819 vs 2024
- 8Susan McdiarmidAssociate Professor$197,665▲ $33,276 vs 2024
- 9Nora PadykulaDean$187,564▲ $40,898 vs 2024
- 10David BakuliProfessor$186,790▲ $2,383 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Westfield State University (Massachusetts) employee make?
The typical employee was paid $29,904 in 2025: half of the 1,488 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $5,637 and $78,853.
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. 491 people (33.0%) 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 (96.5% of all pay), overtime (1.5%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (2.0%).
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; 1 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals