your town
Average spent annually on public employee salaries, per capita, in 2007.
| Municipality | Amount |
|---|---|
| Abington | NA |
| Acton | $667 |
| Acushnet | $943 |
| Adams | $377 |
| Agawam | $1,220 |
| Alford | NA |
| Amesbury | $1,647 |
| Amherst | $825 |
| Andover | $1,785 |
| Aquinnah | $2,013 |
| Arlington | $1,312 |
| Ashburnham | $412 |
| Ashby | $346 |
| Ashfield | $355 |
| Ashland | $1,311 |
| Athol | $407 |
| Attleboro | $1,326 |
| Auburn | $1,161 |
| Avon | $2,029 |
| Ayer | $1,607 |
| Barnstable | $1,599 |
| Barre | $358 |
| Becket | NA |
| Bedford | NA |
| Belchertown | $1,403 |
| Bellingham | $1,445 |
| Belmont | $1,740 |
| Berkley | NA |
| Berlin | $1,205 |
| Bernardston | NA |
| Beverly | $1,494 |
| Billerica | $1,204 |
| Blackstone | $401 |
| Blandford | NA |
| Bolton | $442 |
| Boston | $1,782 |
| Bourne | $1,165 |
| Boxborough | $1,151 |
| Boxford | $1,184 |
| Boylston | $919 |
| Braintree | $1,946 |
| Brewster | $996 |
| Bridgewater | $444 |
| Brimfield | $802 |
| Brockton | $1,511 |
| Brookfield | $882 |
| Brookline | $1,620 |
| Buckland | $317 |
| Burlington | $1,950 |
| Cambridge | $1,545 |
| Canton | $1,414 |
| Carlisle | $1,920 |
| Carver | $1,614 |
| Charlemont | $277 |
| Charlton | $277 |
| Chatham | $1,857 |
| Chelmsford | $1,259 |
| Chelsea | $1,582 |
| Cheshire | $158 |
| Chester | $427 |
| Chesterfield | $185 |
| Chicopee | $1,598 |
| Chilmark | $2,014 |
| Clarksburg | $835 |
| Clinton | NA |
| Cohasset | $2,151 |
| Colrain | $228 |
| Concord | $1,773 |
| Conway | NA |
| Cummington | $237 |
| Dalton | $293 |
| Danvers | $1,439 |
| Dartmouth | $1,025 |
| Dedham | NA |
| Deerfield | $903 |
| Dennis | $685 |
| Dighton | $383 |
| Douglas | $1,318 |
| Dover | $1,340 |
| Dracut | $980 |
| Dudley | $302 |
| Dunstable | $277 |
| Duxbury | NA |
| East Bridgewater | $1,389 |
| East Brookfield | $311 |
| East Longmeadow | NA |
| Eastham | $1,076 |
| Easthampton | $1,097 |
| Easton | $1,333 |
| Edgartown | $2,404 |
| Egremont | NA |
| Erving | $1,382 |
| Essex | $645 |
| Everett | $1,515 |
| Fairhaven | $1,042 |
| Fall River | $1,216 |
| Falmouth | $1,347 |
| Fitchburg | $1,518 |
| Florida | NA |
| Foxborough | $1,803 |
| Framingham | $1,383 |
| Franklin | $1,486 |
| Freetown | $618 |
| Gardner | $1,131 |
| Georgetown | $1,483 |
| Gill | $309 |
| Gloucester | NA |
| Goshen | $257 |
| Gosnold | NA |
| Grafton | NA |
| Granby | $1,160 |
| Granville | NA |
| Great Barrington | $394 |
| Greenfield | NA |
| Groton | $505 |
| Groveland | NA |
| Hadley | $1,121 |
| Halifax | $928 |
| Hamilton | $391 |
| Hampden | $227 |
| Hancock | $483 |
| Hanover | $1,739 |
| Hanson | $484 |
| Hardwick | $381 |
| Harvard | $1,861 |
| Harwich | $1,441 |
| Hatfield | NA |
| Haverhill | $1,074 |
| Hawley | $333 |
| Heath | $366 |
| Hingham | NA |
| Hinsdale | NA |
| Holbrook | $1,123 |
| Holden | $369 |
| Holland | NA |
| Holliston | $1,605 |
| Holyoke | $2,332 |
| Hopedale | $1,794 |
| Hopkinton | $1,811 |
| Hubbardston | $311 |
| Hudson | $1,733 |
| Hull | $1,640 |
| Huntington | $235 |
| Ipswich | $1,598 |
| Kingston | $1,007 |
| Lakeville | NA |
| Lancaster | NA |
| Lanesborough | $1,150 |
| Lawrence | $1,638 |
| Lee | $1,289 |
| Leicester | $1,364 |
| Lenox | $1,566 |
| Leominster | $1,329 |
| Leverett | $1,170 |
| Lexington | $2,155 |
| Leyden | NA |
| Lincoln | $2,033 |
| Littleton | $1,658 |
| Longmeadow | $1,540 |
| Lowell | $1,115 |
| Ludlow | NA |
| Lunenburg | NA |
| Lynn | $1,746 |
| Lynnfield | $1,670 |
| Malden | $390 |
| Manchester-By-The-Sea | $805 |
| Mansfield | $1,904 |
| Marblehead | $1,743 |
| Marion | $1,236 |
| Marlborough | $1,215 |
| Marshfield | $1,844 |
| Mashpee | $1,896 |
| Mattapoisett | $1,160 |
| Maynard | NA |
| Medfield | $2,067 |
| Medford | NA |
| Medway | $1,396 |
| Melrose | $1,033 |
| Mendon | $471 |
| Merrimac | NA |
| Methuen | $1,583 |
| Middleborough | $1,491 |
| Middlefield | NA |
| Middleton | $951 |
| Milford | $1,485 |
| Millbury | $1,073 |
| Millis | $1,428 |
| Millville | $346 |
| Milton | $1,366 |
| Monroe | $1,091 |
| Monson | $1,234 |
| Montague | $359 |
| Monterey | $546 |
| Montgomery | NA |
| Mount Washington | NA |
| Nahant | $1,209 |
| Nantucket | NA |
| Natick | $1,296 |
| Needham | $1,631 |
| New Ashford | $26 |
| New Bedford | NA |
| New Braintree | NA |
| New Marlborough | $334 |
| New Salem | $331 |
| Newbury | $382 |
| Newburyport | NA |
| Newton | $2,009 |
| Norfolk | $1,295 |
| North Adams | $1,253 |
| North Andover | $1,435 |
| North Attleborough | $1,397 |
| North Brookfield | $1,140 |
| North Reading | $1,842 |
| Northampton | $1,285 |
| Northborough | $1,371 |
| Northbridge | NA |
| Northfield | $260 |
| Norton | $1,305 |
| Norwell | $1,995 |
| Norwood | $1,373 |
| Oak Bluffs | $2,216 |
| Oakham | $228 |
| Orange | $332 |
| Orleans | $1,331 |
| Otis | NA |
| Oxford | $1,311 |
| Palmer | $1,182 |
| Paxton | $387 |
| Peabody | $1,386 |
| Pelham | NA |
| Pembroke | NA |
| Pepperell | $426 |
| Peru | $216 |
| Petersham | NA |
| Phillipston | $283 |
| Pittsfield | $1,270 |
| Plainfield | $354 |
| Plainville | NA |
| Plymouth | NA |
| Plympton | NA |
| Princeton | NA |
| Provincetown | NA |
| Quincy | $1,375 |
| Randolph | NA |
| Raynham | $617 |
| Reading | $1,997 |
| Rehoboth | $280 |
| Revere | $1,104 |
| Richmond | NA |
| Rochester | $1,097 |
| Rockland | $1,465 |
| Rockport | NA |
| Rowe | $2,970 |
| Rowley | NA |
| Royalston | NA |
| Russell | $275 |
| Rutland | $296 |
| Salem | $1,173 |
| Salisbury | $489 |
| Sandisfield | $381 |
| Sandwich | $1,272 |
| Saugus | $1,268 |
| Savoy | $701 |
| Scituate | $1,485 |
| Seekonk | $1,240 |
| Sharon | $1,626 |
| Sheffield | $343 |
| Shelburne | $285 |
| Sherborn | NA |
| Shirley | $960 |
| Shrewsbury | $1,284 |
| Shutesbury | $964 |
| Somerset | $1,410 |
| Somerville | $1,049 |
| South Hadley | $1,055 |
| Southampton | $668 |
| Southborough | $1,451 |
| Southbridge | $1,133 |
| Southwick | NA |
| Spencer | $287 |
| Springfield | $1,876 |
| Sterling | $460 |
| Stockbridge | $527 |
| Stoneham | $1,296 |
| Stoughton | $1,628 |
| Stow | $447 |
| Sturbridge | $1,170 |
| Sudbury | $1,732 |
| Sunderland | NA |
| Sutton | $1,237 |
| Swampscott | $1,473 |
| Swansea | $977 |
| Taunton | $1,464 |
| Templeton | $401 |
| Tewksbury | $1,414 |
| Tisbury | $1,908 |
| Tolland | NA |
| Topsfield | $129 |
| Townsend | $321 |
| Truro | NA |
| Tyngsborough | $1,329 |
| Tyringham | $1,185 |
| Upton | $497 |
| Uxbridge | $1,375 |
| Wakefield | $1,625 |
| Wales | $807 |
| Walpole | $1,622 |
| Waltham | $1,465 |
| Ware | $1,085 |
| Wareham | $1,503 |
| Warren | $322 |
| Warwick | NA |
| Washington | NA |
| Watertown | $1,174 |
| Wayland | $2,424 |
| Webster | $945 |
| Wellesley | $2,327 |
| Wellfleet | $2,293 |
| Wendell | $236 |
| Wenham | $535 |
| West Boylston | $1,506 |
| West Bridgewater | $1,951 |
| West Brookfield | $341 |
| West Newbury | $521 |
| West Springfield | $1,337 |
| West Stockbridge | NA |
| West Tisbury | $627 |
| Westborough | $1,984 |
| Westfield | $1,709 |
| Westford | $1,794 |
| Westhampton | $669 |
| Westminster | $437 |
| Weston | NA |
| Westport | $1,201 |
| Westwood | $1,923 |
| Weymouth | $1,172 |
| Whately | $849 |
| Whitman | $411 |
| Wilbraham | $423 |
| Williamsburg | $738 |
| Williamstown | $850 |
| Wilmington | $1,603 |
| Winchendon | $1,240 |
| Winchester | $1,668 |
| Windsor | $248 |
| Winthrop | NA |
| Woburn | $2,124 |
| Worcester | $1,458 |
| Worthington | NA |
| Wrentham | $1,112 |
| Yarmouth | $809 |
SOURCE: State Department of Revenue
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