{"id":819,"date":"2014-02-05T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/?p=819"},"modified":"2014-02-05T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:44:59","slug":"report-on-pay-demographics-of-municipal-workforce-slips-from-sight-on-bloomberg-administrations-last-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Report on Pay, Demographics of Municipal Workforce Slips From Sight on Bloomberg Administration\u2019s Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Doug Turetsky. February 5, 2014 <\/em><\/p>\n

A little noticed report, prepared by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Mayor\u2019s Office of Operations and released on the Bloomberg Administration\u2019s last day in office, looks at changes in the compensation and composition of the municipal workforce over the past decade. The report, which is not available on the city\u2019s website but IBO provides here<\/a> could fuel arguments on both sides of the negotiations to settle the city\u2019s expired labor contracts.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the median base salary, which doesn\u2019t include overtime, pension, or fringe benefit costs, for full-time city employees in fiscal year 2012 was $65,299. That\u2019s relatively little-changed from an inflation-adjusted median salary of $64,698 in 2003, Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s first full fiscal year in office. As the report states, \u201cMedian [inflation-adjusted] salaries have remained stable over the past ten years, ranging from a low of $59,000 in 2005 to a high of $66,000 in Fiscal 2010.\u201d <\/p>\n

While union leaders may look at those numbers and see fodder for arguing that salaries for municipal workers barely stayed ahead of inflation over that 10-year period, that small gain might look pretty good to a large share of the rest of the city. For city residents as a whole, median earnings adjusted for inflation have not yet rebounded to their 2005 level. Median citywide earnings in 2005 were $37,091 and just $34,019 in 2012, according to Census Bureau figures<\/a> compiled by IBO\u2019s Julie Anna Golebiewski. <\/p>\n

The report, New York City Government Workforce Profile Report, covers 39 agencies with nearly 327,800 full-time and full-time equivalent employees. The report includes all the city agencies that report to the Mayor along with the Health and Hospitals Corporation and New York City Housing Authority, even though these two are technically not city agencies. So that means agencies such as IBO and the Campaign Finance Board and employees of other elected officials are not included.<\/p>\n

Overall, nearly one-third of the city\u2019s full-time workforce\u2014about 100,000 employees\u2014 had base salaries of $50,000 or less in 2012. On the other end of the salary scale, 9 percent of the municipal workforce\u2014about 27,000 staffers\u2014had base salaries of $100,000 or more. <\/p>\n

On the agency level, median base salaries also varied. The very highest was the School Construction Authority, where the median base salary for its staff of 660 was $100,400. The uniformed services tended to have substantially higher median salaries than workers in other agencies. At $76,488, the median salaries for the police, fire, and correction departments outstripped the 2012 citywide median. The sanitation department, with a median salary of $69,339 was nearer the median for all city employees. <\/p>\n

Conversely, a number of agencies had median base salaries well below the citywide level. The Taxi and Limousine Commission\u2019s 460 full- and full-time equivalent employees had a median salary of $39,205 in 2012. They were followed closely by the housing authority\u2019s 11,500 staff members with a median salary of $40,624. <\/p>\n

In addition to information on salaries, the report provides numerous demographic details on the city\u2019s workforce\u2014from gender and racial and ethnic profiles of agencies and various occupational categories to information on employees\u2019 average years of city service, civil service status, and eligibility for retirement. The report\u2019s intent is clearly stated up front: \u201cThe goal of this report is to make New York City\u2019s municipal workforce\u2026transparent to the people it serves, and to provide interested parties with the personnel data needed for analysis and planning.\u201d
\nSomehow that goal of transparency faded away in the waning hours of the Bloomberg Administration and this report\u2014covering the city\u2019s single largest expense, about $37 billion annually on its workforce\u2014went largely unseen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Doug Turetsky. February 5, 2014 A little noticed report, prepared by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services and the Mayor\u2019s Office of Operations and released on the Bloomberg Administration\u2019s last day in office, looks at changes in the compensation and composition of the municipal workforce over the past decade. The report, which is … Continue reading Report on Pay, Demographics of Municipal Workforce Slips From Sight on Bloomberg Administration\u2019s Last Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}