*10 of the 3,318 employees are not included in many analyses because they were hired between 12/27/2016 and 1/16/17 and their salary data was not available
A majority of city employees can expect to earn between $30,000 and $70,000 annually. Those whose salaries are less than $30,000 are often part-time or temporary workers. The median base salary across all city positions is about $53,794. With overtime and bonuses included, city workers earn significantly more, as expected. Public Safety and Public Works employees take the largest shares of overtime hours and pay.
On average: Fire bureau employees earned more than $2,800 in overtime pay. Bureau of Police employees earned $6,275 per person in overtime. And emergency medical services employees earned more than $21,000 in overtime. The difference is likely explained by staffing — emergency medical services employed 173 people in 2016, while the data shows 672 in the fire bureau and 1,071 in the police bureau. Staffing numbers may be different now.
Overall, city employees are mostly white and mostly men. About 78 percent of employees are white, and 79 percent of the white employees are men, according to the data. White men make up about 62 percent of all city workers.
In Pittsburgh, roughly 66 percent of residents are white; about one quarter of residents are black. And men make up more than 48 percent of the city population, according to a Census survey.
The Public Safety department — the largest city department with 1,970 employees — is among the whitest, most male-saturated departments.
Workers in the Environmental Services department are among the most racially diverse; 75 percent of them are not white. Its employees are overwhelmingly men, though. The Bureau of Neighborhood Empowerment, a relatively small department, employs roughly equal numbers of men and women, and a majority of them are not white.
By breaking city salaries into brackets, you can see where the incomes of most city employees fall. A majority earn middle- and upper middle-class salaries. Some employees jump into new brackets because of the overtime pay they earn. When overtime is factored in, the vast majority of people making more than $100,000 worked in the Public Safety Department.
Mayor Bill Peduto earned the second highest base salary in 2016. Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich beat Peduto out for the top spot, earning $112,500. Peduto made $107,500. Last year, he had the third highest base salary.
When you consider salary along with bonuses and overtime pay, Peduto’s pay rank falls. Out of all city employees, 55 people made more than Peduto did in 2016. Most of the employees who earned more were within the Public Safety department.