Gender diversity in city jobs

By separating Public Works and Public Safety, it illustrates the vastly different makeup of segments of the city’s workforce. In 2015, employees in the city's Public Safety and Public Works departments were overwhelmingly male, but the rest of the city's workers were majority female. The city had roughly the same gender breakdown in 2013.

The salaries supported by taxpayer dollars

City jobs provide a middle-class life for many employees. For some in Public Safety making more than $100,000 in 2015, it can be a more lucrative situation. That's because Public Safety employees, unlike most administrative positions, regularly have access to opportunities to earn overtime.

Salaries by department

Compared to other departments in 2015, the Public Safety Department was a major cost center for the city because of the nature of the work and the number of city employees.

The price tag on public safety

The Public Safety department accounted for more than nine out of every 10 overtime dollars in 2015 and more than half of the people employed by the City of Pittsburgh. The department used nearly one of out of every three dollars spent in the city's 2015 budget.

Top paid person by department

The power of overtime is evident when the highest-paid Public Safety employee in 2015 is compared to the rest of the city's administrative departments that largely don't have overtime.

Medical rescue on overdrive

Five Pittsburgh EMS workers earned more overtime pay, when compared to their scheduled salary, than any other city workers in 2015. Higher paid city employees earn more money per hour, so instead of looking at the highest-paid employees, the ratio between regular pay and premium pay can show who worked lots of overtime.

All the people who made more money than Mayor Peduto in 2015

In 2015, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto was supposed to be the city’s third highest-paid employee, at $107,500. Through the first 11 months of 2015, Peduto earned slightly more than $90,000. The mayor doesn’t earn overtime, but when it’s factored in, his ranking among the top-paid employees plummets. The vast majority of the employees who make more than the mayor are in the Public Safety Department, aided by lots of overtime.