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Up to 5 percent of municipal employees make $100,000 or more

By Meg Murphy

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 27, 2012

Who says public service doesn’t pay? In a number of communities south of Boston, between 3 and 5 percent of all municipal employees pull in $100,000 or more in their jobs, according to an informal Globe survey. The ranks of the highly paid are usually dominated by employees in the local school system and Police Department, with a variable sprinkling of firefighters and top municipal officials, according to 2011 payroll records from Brockton, Duxbury, Hingham, Stoughton, and Weymouth.

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