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The bulk of high-overtime state employees work in just a few departments State Police, MBTA, and most notably, the Department of Mental Health, which had 159 employees who made more in overtime than their base salary, according to the data. ....
Massachusetts state salary database: See what state employees earned in 2020 Updated Jan 28, 2021; In a year where Massachusetts residents saw historic unemployment levels and business closures across the state due to COVID-19, overtime for state employees increased by roughly 9.3% in 2020. Collectively, state employees took home $2.84 billion with some doubling their take-home pay with overtime, according to a MassLive analysis of state payroll data. Take MBTA inspector John Keady, who took home $310,198 in 2020. More than half of that $191,451.55, to be exact came from overtime pay. Then there’s Denise Ferdinand, a nurse who made nearly three times her base salary in 2020 due to overtime. Her total pay in 2020 was about $239,000. ....