11 Brockton school employees topped $200K in 2023 — including 3 getting paid not to work
BROCKTON — In 2023, nearly 900 people earned at least $100,000 working for the Brockton Public Schools.
That's one takeaway from a close look at salary data for the calendar year 2023.
Eleven school workers grossed $200,000 or more. They include three top officials who remain on paid leave amid the school deficit crisis: Superintendent Mike Thomas, Chief Financial Officer Aldo Petronio and his lieutenant, Chris Correia. This data includes pay from when the city put them on leave in fall 2023 through Dec. 31, 2023. The city has kept the trio on paid leave throughout 2024 as investigations continue into their roles in the financial debacle. Correia has sought legal protection as a whistle-blower, saying he pleaded with his superior to act sooner as Correia grasped the scale of the deficit.
Thomas topped the list with a compensation of $278,605. The top 10 includes deputy superintendents in charge of learning and teaching, human resources, transportation and operations.
School Police Officer Jason P. Mosley made the top 10 by supplementing his $111,636 base pay with more than $60,000 in overtime, $14,639 working outside details and nearly $7,000 in hazard pay. A former Brockton High School student and his father have sued the city and Mosley over a Nov. 17, 2021 incident in which Mosley appeared to kneel on the student's neck while handcuffing him. That case is now in federal court.
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Top 10 highest paid Brockton school employees
Here are the top 10 earners from Brockton Public Schools for calendar year 2023:
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See everyone who made $100,000+
The Brockton Public Schools are one of the city's largest employers. Of the 3,522 people who received at least $1 in pay from or through the schools, 898 made $100,000 or more. The district had a total enrollment of 14,906 students for school year 2022-2023.
The searchable database below contains every person who earned $100,000 or more from or through school employment in 2023:
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Crunch the numbers yourself
The database below includes everyone who earned at least $1 from or through the schools in 2023. You can sort by department to see who grossed the the most at a particular school or, say, working in the much-scrutinized transportation office.
The Enterprise has reformatted the data the city provided to make it easier to search. In some cases, six-figure earners were listed under "substitutes." In cases where The Enterprise could identify the person's current or former role, we have indicated so.
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This article originally appeared on The Enterprise: Top 10 highest paid Brockton Public Schools employees in 2023
