CHART: Top 50 City Earners in 2011
Today's chart shows the top 50 earners in 2011 for the city of Peabody.
On Thursday, we reported that 51 city employees earned more than $100,000 last year, showed the top 20 earners and gave some explanation on why police officers tend to place so high on the list of high earners on the public payroll.
Today's chart below shows the top 50 earners in 2011 for the city of Peabody.
Top 50 earners for 2011
* Earnings reflect gross income
| Name | Job Title | Earnings | |
| 1 | William Waters |
PMLP General Manager |
$169,758 |
| 2 | Glenn Trueira |
PMLP Asst. Mgr./Engineer |
$150,321 |
| 3 | Russell Dunn |
PMLP Engineer |
$143,016 |
| 4 | Robert Champagne |
Police Chief | $141,019 |
| 5 | Scott Wlasuk |
Police Lieutenant |
$138,767 |
| 6 | Philip Rohn | PMLP Sup. of Distribution | $137,474 |
| 7 | Eric Ricci |
Police Detective/Patrolman | $136,100 |
| 8 | Martin Cohan |
Police Deputy Chief |
$135,366 |
| 9 | Dennis Bonaiuto |
Police Captain |
$133,639 |
| 10 | William Cook |
Police Lieutenant | $128,993 |
| 11 | Charles Burnett* |
Superintendent of Schools |
$126,704 |
| 12 | Edward Sapienza |
High School Principal |
$126,217 |
| 13 | Roy Simoes |
PMLP Asst. Sup. Engineering |
$125,950 |
| 14 | Charles Orphanos |
PMLP Asst. Sup. Engineering |
$124,971 |
| 15 | James Christman |
Police Patrolman | $124,768 |
| 16 | Michael Coleman |
PMLP | $124,548 |
| 17 | Timothy Maroney |
Police Sergeant | $124,249 |
| 18 | Richard Nelson |
Fire Deputy Chief |
$122,727 |
| 19 | Michael Conwell |
PMLP Lineman |
$120,786 |
| 20 | John McCorry |
Police Lieutenant | $120,607 |
| 21 | John DeRosa, Jr. | Police Captain | $118,730 |
| 22 | Scott Carriere | Police Deputy Chief | $117,555 |
| 23 | Arthur Yeo | Police Lieutenant | $116,411 |
| 24 | Joseph Berardino | Police Captain | $116,026 |
| 25 | Albert Lopes | Police Sergeant | $114,698 |
| 26 | David Schofield | PMLP Engineer | $113,667 |
| 27 | Mark Saia | Police Special Ops/Patrolman | $113,092 |
| 28 | Paul Lynch | Fire Deputy Chief | $111,740 |
| 29 | Scott Richards | Police Lieutenant | $111,424 |
| 30 | Steven Pasdon | Fire Chief | $111,141 |
| 31 | Jeffrey Pearson | PMLP | $109,761 |
| 32 | Richard Rose | Police Patrolman | $108,161 |
| 33 | Robert Faletra | Police Special Ops/Patrolman | $106,635 |
| 34 | James Harkins | Police Patrolman | $104,501 |
| 35 | Ralph Ruocco | High School AFJROTC | $104,236 |
| 36 | Patricia Schaffer | Finance Director | $103,624 |
| 37 | Karen McGovern | Middle School Housemaster | $103,012 |
| 38 | Steven Stone | Special Education Director | $103,000 |
| 39 | Jennifer Smith | High School Dean | $102,738 |
| 40 | Keith Kremer | High School AFJROTC | $102,556 |
| 41 | David Keniston | School Business Manager | $102,500 |
| 42 | Robert Langley | Public Services Director | $102,424 |
| 43 | John Christopher | City Solicitor | $102,124 |
| 44 | Robert Gallo | Police Patrolman | $102,048 |
| 45 | Todd Bucey | Middle School Principal | $101,965 |
| 46 | Leo Cunha | Police Patrolman | $101,877 |
| 47 | Michael Muse | Police Patrolman | $101,496 |
| 48 | David B. Murphy | Police Patrolman | $100,958 |
| 49 | Peter Ginolfi | Middle School Housemaster | $100,912 |
| 50 | Douglas Marcus | Police Patrolman | $100,034 |
* Dr. Charles Milt Burnett retired in July from the School Department and therefore was not paid his full salary for the calendar year, which would otherwise have placed him near the top of the list.