If you had “police” in the office pool for who would dominate Milford’s 2025 payroll, you called it. Seven of the town’s top 10 municipal earners were police officers, with two school administrators and a firefighter rounding out the list. The newly released payroll snapshot shows total pay for the town’s highest earners was often supercharged by overtime, off-duty details and other supplemental payments that pushed take-home numbers well above base salaries. Deputy Chief John Sanchioni topped the list with about $246,099 in total compensation, and several sergeants and lieutenants landed in the low-to-mid six-figure range. For residents and budget hawks, the numbers underline how a small group of employees can shape personnel and pension costs for the year.
According to MassLive, the top earners for 2025 included John Sanchioni ($246,099); Paul Pinto ($238,764); Kara Maguire ($233,476); Kevin O’Loughlin ($227,268); Antonio Dinis ($222,654); Joseph Francesconi ($217,082); Kevin McIntyre ($212,335); Carlos Sousa ($209,873); William Collins ($203,899); and Craig Consigli ($199,185). The outlet’s payroll database grouped the town’s records and highlighted how police overtime and detail assignments figured heavily into total pay. It also broke out supplemental earnings, noting that firefighter William Collins’s overtime and detail work made up a major share of his 2025 haul.
Who Made The List
Public payroll aggregators largely mirror those results and let residents pull up individual entries without digging through raw spreadsheets. The town’s 2025 payroll appears in databases such as OpenGovPay and GovSalaries, which list the same names and totals and provide downloadable records. With a few clicks, users can see base pay, overtime and other supplemental payments and line those up across multiple years.
Overtime And Details Drove Pay
Overtime and off-duty detail work have been the main engines behind big paydays for municipal officers across Massachusetts, and Milford’s numbers fit that pattern. Statewide reporting documented rising overtime totals in 2025 and showed how supplemental pay pushed public-safety workers to the top of payroll lists, often by wide margins, according to The Boston Globe. That broader trend helps explain how patrol sergeants and lieutenants in smaller communities can out-earn other senior municipal staff once overtime and details are factored in.
Budget Response And Council Debate
Milford leaders have already been wrestling with how to account for those personnel costs during budget hearings, where contractual obligations, on-call pay and recruitment pressures have been front and center. Finance committee minutes reflect detailed discussion of police and fire budgets and note that overtime levels and vehicle-replacement choices were part of the FY26 and FY27 debates (Milford Finance Committee minutes). Local coverage of workshops and hearings has also captured back-and-forth over a consultant pay study and supplemental analyses from department leadership as the council weighed potential pay adjustments.
For residents who want to follow the money, the town’s 2025 payroll is searchable through the aggregators above and the MassLive database, and those tools let taxpayers pull individual records and compare year-to-year totals. The public records spell out exactly how base salaries, overtime and detail pay stacked together to put seven officers on Milford’s top-10 list.
