A Boston faculty custodian cleaned up as he retired with $567,427 in take-home pay final 12 months, with a barrelful of that money coming from unused trip time.
The town payroll, posted on the shut of day Friday, exhibits eight Boston staff incomes greater than $500,000. They’re principally police who add to their gross pay with additional time and particulars.
However that one public colleges custodian, Fleet Companies Supervisor Paul Sordillo, earned $413,783 in “other” bucks a Metropolis Corridor spokesperson confirmed was “6,000-plus hours of unused vacation time as a BPS custodian earned over decades.” Sordillo’s union, the Herald was informed, permits for banking trip time.
Sordillo’s base pay was $108,815 final 12 months — and he tossed in “retro” and “overtime” hours for greater than $20,000 in every class, for a remaining 12 months on town dime at greater than half 1,000,000.
“That’s ridiculous,” stated MassFiscal’s Paul Craney. “When people are upset about taxes in Boston, they should just look at this payroll. Boston, like Massachusetts, doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.”
The town’s payroll grew by greater than 2.28% final 12 months, from $2.14 billion in 2023 to $2.19 billion in 2024, when accounting for normal pay, additional time and “other” pay, amongst different add-ons to annual salaries.
The common wage for metropolis staff was $105,034 in 2024, an enormous leap over the prior 12 months when staff had been paid $74,330 on common, payroll data present.
Many metropolis worker salaries balloon considerably with “gross pay,” which incorporates whopping quantities of additional time topping out at $223,773 for one police officer.
Additionally, maybe driving the expansion is the 54 new positions created in 2024 by the Wu administration — as a part of 301 new positions which have been added in the course of the mayor’s first time period.
Roughly a 3rd of these 301 newly created positions earn greater than $100,000, and people new staff are paid $84,781 on common, the Herald beforehand reported.
Mayor Michelle Wu has been pushing since final March for the state Legislature to approve a hike within the metropolis’s industrial tax charges to offer reduction for householders.
On the identical time, the mayor has rejected calls to chop town’s $4.6 billion funds, which grew by 8% this fiscal 12 months — which has been a supply of rivalry for the industrial sector and lawmakers who oppose her tax shift laws.
Wu sometimes rolls out her annual metropolis funds proposal in early spring, and it stays to be seen what progress her spending plan will embody.
The 2024 payroll exhibits that 78 others earned $400,000 or extra; 435 metropolis staff pulled down $300,000-plus; 1,810 banked $200,000 and up; and, 8,384 clocked in at $100,000 or extra.
Mayor Michelle Wu earned $207,000 with no additional time or different pay.
Boston’s 2024 metropolis worker payroll: ‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’
