Many things go into a town determining how much their administrative leaders will earn. The salaries of those officials are public information, as they are paid with local tax dollars.

Some town managers get additional stipends for specific work, like Rumford’s town manager, who gets $17,544 for duties related to economic development.

Other considerations are a community’s population size and the size of its budget. For example, in Carrabassett Valley — a tourist hub and an important vacation destination — the manager serves a town of just 673, but makes one of the highest salaries in the region, at $125,000. Similar reasons may exist in Bethel — also a destination hotspot — where the town manager makes the highest salary among the managers in western Maine, at $156,000 a year.

The town manager in Farmington, who serves the highest population in both Franklin and Oxford counties, makes $120,000. The lowest paid leader is Roxbury’s administrator, who makes about $50,000 and also serves the smallest population, 361.

Here is a round up of such salaries through the Western Maine region. While the towns vary in size, so, too, do the salaries.

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