Sunshine Week: Police and corrections officers are some of the state’s highest earners. Overtime pay boosts their salaries to six figures and beyond.

By: CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Outlets: Concord Monitor

Published: March 18, 2026

Words: 1,078

Last Updated: 2 days, 14 hours ago


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Nine of the 10 highest-paid state employees work in New Hampshire prisons.

Last year, those nine alone earned a combined $3.1 million, earnings that a Monitor analysis of state salary data found were bolstered by copious amounts of overtime.

The highest-paid individual, Dwane Sweatt, a supervising officer at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin, made 2.5 times more than Gov. Kelly Ayotte. Sweatt earned $406,273, with $295,905 of that coming from …

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