For example, Francisco Martin, head basketball coach at UMass Amherst, made $2.18 million last year, according to the Office of the Comptroller’s statewide payroll database. Dr. Michael Collins, chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School, made $1.57 million.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts paid a total of $10.89 billion to state employees in 2025, including $1.82 billion to UMass employees, $955.4 million to MBTA employees, $680.68 million to trial court employees and $486.19 million to Department of Developmental Services employees.

The public payroll also lists the 2025 salaries for Gov. Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell and other public officials. They didn’t make the top 50, but their pay is listed below.

Check out the 50 highest-paid Massachusetts state workers in 2025.

50 highest-paid state workers in MA in 2025

Here were the 50 highest-paid Massachusetts state workers in 2025, according to the statewide payroll:

1. Francisco Martin – UMass Head Basketball Coach ($2.18 million)
2. Michael Collins – UMass Chan Medical School Chancellor, Senior Vice President of Health Sciences ($1.57 million)
3. Joseph Harasymiak – UMass Head Football Coach ($1.41 million)
4. Terence Flotte – UMass Chan Medical School Executive Deputy Chancellor & Provost, T.H. Chan School of Medicine Dean ($1.18 million)
5. Partha Chakrabarti – UMass Chan Medical School Executive Vice Chancellor for Innovation & Business Development ($1.01 million)
6. Ryan Bamford – UMass Athletic Director ($912,226)
7. Martin Meehan – UMass President ($879,454)
8. Lisa Colombo – UMass Chan Medical School Executive Vice Chancellor of ForHealth Consulting ($821,872)
9. Javier Reyes – UMass Amherst Chancellor ($731,684)
10. Donald Brown – Former UMass Head Football Coach ($705,440)
11. Gregory Carvel – UMass Hockey Coach ($701,048)
12. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco – UMass Boston Chancellor ($699,908)
13. John Lindstedt – UMass Chan Medical School Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration & Finance ($699,175)
14. Kenneth Rock – UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Biomedical Research ($692,780)
15. Katherine Fitzgerald – UMass Chan Medical School Department of Medicine Vice Chair ($676,959)
16. Gregory Volturo – UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Emergency Medicine ($644,380)
17. Mark Fuller – UMass Dartmouth Chancellor ($626,750)
18. Anne Massey – UMass Isenberg School of Management Dean ($599,242)
19. Peter Reinhart – UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences Founding Director ($574,265)
20. Julie Chen – UMass Lowell Chancellor ($549,614)
21. Andrew McCallum – UMass Center for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Director ($544,451)
22. David Flanagan – UMass Chan Medical School Deputy Executive Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management ($533,562)
23. Donald Towsley – UMass Quantum Information Systems Institute Director ($528,922)
24. Fouad Abd-El-Khalick – UMass Provost, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs ($515,870)
25. Lisa Calise – UMass Senior Vice President for Administration & Finance, Treasurer ($511,275)
26. Phillip Eng – MBTA General Manager ($509,114)
27. James Healy – UMass Chan Deputy Vice Chancellor for Management ($496,647)
28. Adam Wise – UMass Boston Vice Chancellor for University Advancement ($491,793)
29. Mindy Hull – Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner ($491,017)
30. Roger Davis – UMass Chan Medical School Program in Molecular Medicine Chair ($486,238)
31. Celia Schiffer – UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biotechnology ($478,484)
32. Jeroan Allison – UMass Chan Medical School Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences Chair ($477,782)
33. Craig Mello – UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Molecular Medicine ($476,992)
34. Mary Ahn – UMass Chan Medical School Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs ($475,597)
35. James Watkins – UMass Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Engagement, Strategic Research Initiatives ($474,133)
36. David McManus – UMass Chan Professor and Chair of Medicine ($471,586)
37. Richard Gregory – UMass Chan Medical School Department of Molecular, Cell & Cancer Biology Chair ($469,918)
38. Maxwell Mayer – UMass Chan Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ($469,843)
39. Sanjay Raman – UMass Dean of Engineering ($468,972)
40. Nefertiti Walker – UMass Senior Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs & Equity ($462,152)
41. Fousseni Chabi-Yo – UMass Isenberg School of Management Finance Department Chair ($461,411)
42. Murugappan Muthukumar – UMass Wilmer D. Barrett Professor ($460,783)
43. Mark Johnson – UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Neurosurgery ($458,421)
44. Hong Yu – UMass Lowell Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences Director ($458,025)
45. Sheldon Zhang – UMass Lowell School of Criminology and Justice Studies Professor ($453,950)
46. Albertha Walhout – UMass Chan Medical School Department of Systems Biology Chair, Chair in Biomedical Research ($450,591)
47. Zhiping Weng – UMass Chan Medical School Chair in Biomedical Research ($450,591)
48. Beth McCormick – UMass Chan Medical School Department of Microbiology Chair ($450,591)
49. Shlomo Zilberstein – UMass Amherst Professor of Computer Science ($450,108)
50. Abdallah Georges Assaf – UMass Isenberg School of Management Professor ($447,486)