Data from salary database of Massachusetts state police, DOC officers, raises eyebrows

By Patrick Johnson, The Republican
MassLive
Feb. 24, 2012

A database on salaries for 2011 with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety shows dozens of state police troopers and corrections officers at the state’s prisons earn more than $100,000 and in some cases more than $200,000 annually .

The information was gleaned through Open Checkbook, the state’s new program to promote transparency in government by making information about state finances available over the Internet.

MassLive.com has been compiling information under Open Checkbook for different state departments into searchable databases.

[...]Among the initial findings in the database on the Executive Office of Public Safety is there are 23 state police officers earning more than $200,000 per year and several dozens more making more than $100,000 and more than 20 employees with the Department of Corrections earning more than $100,000.

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