PEABODY — The top bosses at the Peabody Municipal Light Plant topped the list of the city's highest-wage earners in 2011. Plant Manager William Waters, who retired at the end of 2011, made $169,757 last year, and Glenn Trueira, the assistant manager who took over as plant manager in January, made about $150,000.
(Please scroll down for table of salaries).
As in past years, the top spots on the list are reserved for light plant employees and police officers. Police Chief Robert Champagne is the highest-wage earner not at the light plant, with annual earnings of about $141,000.
Former school Superintendent C. Milton Burnett, who has typically been in the top five earners, fell to 11th, making $126,703, which is about $15,000 less than last year. Burnett retired in July.
In contrast, Peabody High School Principal Edward Sapienza, got a nice pay bump, going from $109,500 last year to just over $126,000 in 2011.
It shouldn't be any surprise that salaries in the city are going up. For the first time, every single employee in the top 50 wage earners in Peabody made six figures or more last year. Last year's 45-through-50 spots all made less than $100,000.
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