EASTON — The last time The Enterprise crunched the numbers for the top 10 highest paid Easton town employees, only one made more than $200,000 — Police Lt. Keith Nunes, coming in at $213,168 in 2020.
Now, two years later, we’re taking a look at the 2022 top 10, and five workers cracked $200,000 — including one who cracked $300,000.
Eight of Easton’s highest earners for calendar year 2022 are the same as in our 2020 review.
Rocketing to the top was Timothy Griffin, a firefighter/paramedic who was the only town employee to earn more than $300,000. Griffin amassed $307,645 via what the town terms “other earnings” of $289,103. His regular salary was $18,543.
The “other earnings” category includes details, where a person directs traffic at construction sites and in other situations. “Other earnings” also includes vacation time buyback, longevity bonuses, stipends and other pots of money, according to a list provided by Town Treasurer/Collector Linda J. Hawkes. The town was not able to run a report breaking out each type of “other earnings,” she said.
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Also in the top 10 were names you’d expect, like Superintendent of Schools Lisha Cabral, Police Chief Keith Boone and Fire Chief Justin Alexander. Police Lt. Keith Nunes stayed in the top 10 thanks to strong overtime earnings of $111,799 while the former police chief, Gary Sullivan, made the list via “other earnings” of $123,677. Here’s the list:
Top 10 Easton earners
The dollar’s in the details
For public employees around the state and nation, working details like directing traffic at construction sites can add significant bucks to their bottom lines. Four Easton workers made six figures from “other earnings,” a category the town uses that includes details and other types of pay as outlined above. Here’s the full database to explore:
Top 10 ‘other earnings’
Who pulled the most overtime?
One Easton employee – Nunes – pulled down six figures in overtime for calendar year 2022. People performing a variety of town roles notched high OT payments, including an electrician, police detective and a DPW carpenter. Search the data below to find what other public employees made working OT.
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Top OT earners
Which Easton jobs pay the best?
We crunched the numbers to see not just what individuals make, but what a typical person doing a particular town job pulls down. For instance, in calendar year 2022, four police sergeants had a median total earnings package of $140,020. The typical earnings of one of the town’s 310 teachers stood at $93,310. The town employed 24 custodians, with a median pay of $63,399.
Not all town jobs are full-time or even near full time, of course. The median election worker, for instance, would have worked on election days and made a median of $499 during the year. The following database shows every kind of job and what a typical person doing that work made in 2022.
Best- and worst-paying Easton jobs
Explore the data yourself
Search the database below to find out how much Easton public employees made in calendar year 2022. The data includes anyone that Easton paid at least a dollar. Please note that some earnings, such as traffic details at construction sites, come from private companies, not Easton taxpayers.
What did you find most interesting in Easton’s payroll data? Send your news tips to reporter Chris Helms by email at CHelms@enterprisenews.com or connect on Twitter at @HelmsNews.
