Boston Mayor Marty Walsh‘s administration salaries are supposedly available for public viewing as of Tuesday night. The payroll information was previously undisclosed but now detail the yearly earnings of Mayor Walsh’s new administration.
The Boston Herald reports that Tuesday night, “the mayor’s office opened up the books” and made available the salaries of cabinet members ranging from the big cat, Mayor Walsh himself, all the way down to Megan Costello, head of the Women’s Commission, with the likes of Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans and Chief of Staff Dan Koh sprinkled in between.
BostInno reached out directly to the Mayor’s office to check out the salary information first-hand but it’s not quite as simple to obtain as the Herald makes it out to be.
We were told that all public employees’ salaries are public information, and are available to any member of the public following the submission of a public records request, which must be done in writing. We were also referred to this database which houses publicly available salary information, thought it hasn’t been updated since 2012.
The most up-to-date information we could find that’s currently accessible is the FY 2014 budget which was adopted in July 2013. In that it notes the mayor’s salary, then Tom Menino, as being $175,481; Chief of Staff, $145,398; and Chief of Policy, $141,463.
According to the Herald’s findings, the Walsh administration is on par with that of Menino’s.
It notes, “Mayor Martin J. Walsh will be earning $175,000 a year… $125,000 for Policy Chief Joyce Linehan” and Chief of Staff Dan Koh will earn $152,000 which is the third most behind Mayor Walsh and Commissioner Evans who is slated to take home $174,200. Communications Director Lisa Pollack will pull down $135,000 this year.
As for the rest:
- $125,000 for Policy Chief Joyce Linehan;
- $91,182 for Alejandra N. St. Guillen, interim director of the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians;
- $110,000 for Justin C. Holmes, the head of Information and Technology;
- $91,000 for Keith O. Williams, interim director of the Office of Small and Local Business Enterprise;
- $129,686 for James E. Gillooly, the new transportation commissioner;
- $110,000 for Public Works Commissioner Michael E. Dennehy;
- $123,624 for Health and Human Services head Felix G. Arroyo;
- $105,000 for Christopher Byner, chief of the Boston Center for Youth and Families; and
- $91,182 for Megan Costello, head of the Women’s Commission.
