Top 50 Amherst Town Wages/Salaries: 2011

The following list is based on earnable compensation such as hourly wages, salaries, used personal vacation and sick time, education wage adjustment for degreed police officers and full-time assistants, stipends, call pay, longevity, and private duty pay.

Overtime pay is also included for each employee, which is a big factor for the Amherst Police and DPW positions.

Benefits for each employee have not been included in this list.

Rank Position 2011 Total Pay 1 EMS Director/Health Officer (combined) $87,021.80 2 Police Chief $86,592.40  3 DPW Director $85,218.40 4 Planning/Zoning Director $84,718.40  5 Finance Director $84,718.40 6 Fire Chief/EMT $83,493.20 7 Lieutenant $75,608.20 8 Lieutenant $75,442.77 9 Lead Foreman $72,436.88 10 Library Director $70,060.80 11 Senior Patrolman $70,040.17 12 Sergeant $69,633.99 13 Deputy Chief/EMT $68,436.40 14 Senior Patrolman $67,114.03 15 Recreation Director $64,448.80 16 Senior Patrolman $64,046.56 17 Executive Assistant (Police) $63,917.79 18 Senior Patrolman $63,684.12 19 Senior Patrolman $63,352.63 20 Senior Patrolman $63,014.39 21 Sargeant $61,237.37 22 Senior Patrolman $61,277.13 23 Heavy Equip Operator $59,534.93 24 Senior Patrolman $59,083.21 25 Foreman (DPW) $58,880.06 26 Town Clerk $58,595.60  27 Tax Collector
$58,348.57 28 Patrolman
$58,053.79
29 Patrolman $57,792.83  30 Patrolman $57,444.53 31 Patrolman $57,386.02  32 Head of Reference and Adult Programming
$57,345.60 33 Mechanic $54,200.32 34 Executive Assistant (DPW) $53,270.83 35 Heavy Equip Operator $53,203.49 36 Town Administrator (retired in July) $52,585.20  37 Head of Circulation and Public Services $52,468.00 38 Inspector $52,746.22 39 Executive Assistant (Town Hall - retired in July) $51,942.10 40 Lt. Equip Operator $51,311.23 41 Lt. Equip Operator $50,445.89 42 Head of Children’s Services (Library) $48,464.00 43 Planning/Zoning Technical Assistant $48,112.93  44 Park Foreman* $47,867.14 45 Lt. Equip Operator $47,338.14
46 Dispatcher Coordinator $45,442.63 47 Transfer Station $45,100.44 48 Lt. Equip Operator $44,992.72 49 Paramedic $43,196.21 50 Children’s Library Assistant $41,704.00

*Note: The salary for the Park Foreman provided to Amherst Patch was incorrect. The error has been fixed.