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March 03, 2006
MA DOC by the numbers
By the Numbers: The Massachusetts Department of Correction Budget
www.cjpc.org criminal justice policy coalition
Total Budget of the DOC for state prisons in 2004: $428 million
Increase in the DOC’s operating expenditures since 1994, adjusted for inflation: 23%
Massachusetts’ rank in annual operating costs per inmate: 3rd (behind Maine & Rhode Island)1
Percent of the MA DOC’s total budget devoted to labor costs: 73%
Nationwide percent devoted to the same DOC labor costs: 65%
Massachusetts’ rank in correctional officers’ salaries in 2003: 2nd (behind New Jersey)2
Increase in correctional officers’ salaries since 1992: 70% to 77%
Average percent increase in all MA wage earners’ salaries since 1992: 42.3%3
Salaries of MA COs (Levels I, II, III) in 1992, excluding benefits and overtime: $35,386 – $40,531
Salaries of MA COs in 2003, excluding benefits and overtime: $59,919 – $71,946
Average number of paid days off per year per COs: 52
Average number of paid days off for 15 or more years of service nationally: 25.94
Average number of paid sick leave days for COs: 17.5 days (5 unsubstantiated)
Average sick leave for Federal Bureau of Prison COs: 5.25 days
Average sick leave in the largest state prison system (CA): 12.75 days
Total costs for sick leave time per year: $21 million
Total costs for overtime usage in FY04: $10.4 million
Total costs for overtime usage in FY05: $13.6 million5
Annual cost to DOC of salaries for five MA Correctional Officers Union (MCOFU) board members: $455,0006
Adapted from “The MA Department of Correction (DOC) by the Numbers,” prepared by Angela Antoniewicz, August 2004, at http://www.cjpc.org/doc_doc_stats.htm. All statistics taken from the Governor’s Commission on Correction Reform Report except as noted.
1 Bureau of Justice Statistics. (June 2004). www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/spe01.pdf
2 Bureau of Labor Statistics. (May 2003). http://www.bls.gov/oes/2003/may/oes333012.htm
3 Not adjusted for inflation percent for MA residents, extrapolated from the Report, 23.
4 Society for Human Resource Management. (2000). http://salary.com/benefits/layouthtmls/bnfl_display_nocat_ Ser27_Par65.html
5 DOC Advisory Council, Final Report, 16. This increase, attributed by the DOC to an increase in retirements, was disappointing to the AC.
6 DOC Advisory Council, Preliminary Report, 16.
Posted by lois at March 3, 2006 05:03 PM