Years covered
15
Annual Boston payroll snapshots imported into the site.
City of Boston public payroll explorer
Boston Payroll Data
Boston Payroll is a fast, search-friendly guide to the City of Boston Employee Earnings Report. It organizes annual payroll records into crawlable pages for years, departments, job titles, and employee-name entries so readers can understand how compensation is reported across the city workforce. The summaries on this site are derived from the public dataset and should be read as reporting views of the source data rather than definitive statements about any individual employee.
Search Boston payroll
Find salaries, overtime, departments, and titles
Search the public Boston payroll dataset by employee name, department, or job title. The site is built for speed and crawlability, so the same core information is available through index pages, not just a search box.
Employee-name pages
55,359
Grouped by name as reported in the source data.
Department pages
449
Summary pages for departments in the dataset.
Total reported pay
$12.7B
Combined gross payroll represented by imported records.
Recent years
Boston payroll by reporting year
Top earners preview
Largest reported payroll records
$1,264,844
$1,252,991
$1,112,348
$1,112,348
Cassellius,Brenda
2023 · Superintendent
$596,949
Cassellius,Brenda
2022 · Superintendent
$596,949
$575,583
$567,427
Departments
Browse Boston department salaries
Boston Police Department
$2.7B
Boston Fire Department
$1.8B
Special Education
$227.4M
Boston Public Library
$200.9M
BPS Special Education
$171.8M
Public Works Department
$170.6M
Job titles
Explore title-based salary pages
Teacher
$3.2B
Police Officer
$1.2B
Fire Fighter
$762.4M
Paraprofessional
$366.6M
Police Detective
$328.5M
Police Sergeant
$184.4M
About the dataset
What this site covers
The City of Boston publishes an annual Employee Earnings Report through Analyze Boston. Those files contain public payroll fields such as employee name, department, title, regular pay, overtime, retro pay, and total gross pay. This site imports the annual CSV files into a normalized schema so the data can be explored through stable, indexable URLs.
The goal is not to sensationalize payroll information. Instead, the site provides context, year pages, title summaries, department landing pages, and employee-name indexes that make the public data easier to understand. Where the dataset has limitations, such as name-based identity ambiguity, those limitations are stated plainly.
FAQ preview
Common questions
What is Boston Payroll?
Boston Payroll is a public-data website that organizes the City of Boston Employee Earnings Report into pages for years, departments, titles, and employee-name entries.
Does an employee page always represent one person?
Not necessarily. The source dataset is name-based, so one page may include multiple records filed under the same name across years.
What do overtime, retro, and other pay mean?
These are payroll categories reported in the source dataset. Definitions can vary by bargaining agreement, job, and reporting practice, so the site describes them as reported rather than inferring intent.