I was surprised when I looked at the wages and saw with very few exceptions most people received an increase in the 8% area. The notable people with a decrease where Dept. Heads Samantha Cole and Ronal Patch, there were others.

The CEO salary also increased 2.3%, yet the budget for this department hasn’t passed resident approval in the past few years and was supposed to be revisited, which it wasn’t. Last approval was $37,000 in total to my knowledge.

It was also surprising to me to see the income of the Road Commissioner to be $253,000 for the period with Selectmen Chair Bob Frizzell coming in at $212,000, with many other coming right in just under this income area. Obviously this worksheet doesn’t tell the whole story, but it does provide some insight. It is important to understand the wages as listed are not fully burdened with taxes or benefits and retirement expenses. So the total compensation as listed is quite short of the actual cost and expense to the Town.

I also noticed in many cases an increase in Wages for people typically identified as “Sub Contractors”. The people / companies in this category saw a significant bump, which is surprising when you wouldn’t expect them to have wages at all. I made an attempt to classify the entries by department / category in many cases this is only a guess.

Here is a link to the worksheet

I have am providing this to the Budget Committee as well and we will certainly be looking it over in the coming meetings.. You can look it over and draw your own conclusions and perform your own analysis.

If you would like a copy of the MsExcel Worksheet to work with let me know via email and I will send you a copy…