Boston taxpayers who like to know where every dollar goes just got a new rabbit hole to dive into. The city’s 2025 pay records are now out in detail, showing who pulled in the biggest checks and where overtime stacked up across thousands of municipal jobs.
The Boston Herald has posted an interactive “Your Tax Dollars at Work” database that dropped Friday, with more than 25,000 rows covering the city’s payroll and related agencies. You can search by name, department and pay category, and sort by base pay, overtime or other compensation to see exactly how taxpayer money flows through city paychecks.
What Stands Out
One pattern has already been flagged in previous years. A Boston Globe analysis found that police overtime has recently been a…..