The complex remuneration ecosystem of the city’s office park in the sky.
The Pru’s a top-tier office tower in Boston’s second most expensive rental neighborhood, but that doesn’t mean its 5,000 or so workers are paid better than those elsewhere. Gayla Hensley, managing director of the Mergis Group, a division of the Spherion headhunting firm on the 14th floor, says the jobs she fills in the Pru pay $35,000 to $200,000. “There’s such a mix here,” she says. “There’s small insurance brokers-—I know they’re not paying entry-level people a lot. But right down the hall you could have Sun Life Financial; they’re selling some bigtime worker’s comp policies, and everyone’s making a lot of money. It really depends.” A selection of the Pru’s more interesting earners:
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Basement
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
Experienced branch manager
$70,000
Prudential Parking Garage
Cashier
$8/hour
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Joanne Butler, Green Line train operator
$47,424
Floor 1
Saint Francis Chapel
Father John Wykes, director
$0
Shops at the Prudential Center
Steve Edmond, security guard
$30,000
Levenger
Kimberly King, sales representative
$18,000
Boston Duck Tours
Arthur Halvorsen, guest service representative
$10/hour
California Pizza Kitchen
Tara Sloman, counter server
$35,000
Jasmine Sola
Violet Dennison, sales associate
$7.50/hour plus 2 percent commission
Fitcorp
Experienced trainer
$65,000
Talbots Men’s
Jenna DeAngelo, sales associate
$10/hour
Floor 4
Directorship
Magazine for corporate board members
Associate editor
$40,000
Fenway Community Health
Development officer
$75,000
Floor 11
Partners Healthcare
James J. Mongan, CEO and president
$1,341,650 base; $1,960,000 total
Floor 14
Spherion
Recruiting and staffing service
Corporate headhunter
$35,000
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Floors 16, 26
CSN Stores
E-commerce furniture retailer
Customer service representative
$12/hour
Floor 17
Nstar
Thomas J. May, chairman, CEO, and president
$915,000 base; $7,619,738 total
Floors 18, 19, 20
Boston Properties
Edward Linde, CEO
$600,000 base; $42,250,000 total (includes sales of company stock)
Floors 22, 23
Accenture
William D. Green, chairman and CEO
$2,340,000 base; $8,715,988 total
Floor 25
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi
Partner
$680,000 (average profits per partner)
Floors 29, 34
First Marblehead
Student loan company
Jack Kopnisky, CEO, COO, and president
$657,949 base; $5,165,118 total
Stephen Anbinder, consultant and retired vice chairman
$25,000/month
Floors 30, 35, 44, 46, 49
THE SPACE RACE
It’s been two years since Gillette was bought by Procter & Gamble, and in two more it will have completely vacated the 19 floors it once occupied. (The local workforce is off to South Boston, but the top P&G dogs are all in Ohio; the exec who oversees the shaving company’s operations, Susan E. Arnold, makes $6,111,000.) In 2010, the bulk will be claimed by Ropes & Gray, the city’s largest law firm (associates start at $160, 000). Meanwhile, some former Gillette space is already filled by Boston’s new wave of moneymakers. A Japanese Internet company has engineers on Floor 49; Cooley Godward Kronish, a Silicon Valley law firm (first-year associate salaries: also $160,000), is on Floor 46; software developer Anaqua is on Floor 44; NeuCo, which works with electrical power plants (and where a software developer earns $65,000), occupies Floor 30.
Floor 50
Skywalk Observatory
Cashier
$9/hour
Rooftop
The Lightship Group
Hood blimp line pilot
$30,000
All Floors
PureView
Window washer
$45,000
Massachusetts Department of Public Safety
James Racicot, elevator inspector
$66,884
Salary research: Jason Feifer, M. Elizabeth Roman, Greg Ryan, Rich Shanfeld, Eliza Sivo, Francis Storrs, and Alexandra Vaughn. Additional sources: The SEC, the Massachusetts Division of Public Charities, GuideStar, Monster.com, Craigslist, the American Lawyer, the Boston Globe, Bostonherald.com, SI.com, and Forbes. All information is the most current available.
