Our Mission
Our Compensation Study is designed to empower you with comparative and visually informative payroll trends for your specific government job classification.
Our mission is to help equilize fair compensation amongst government employees thoughout California.
We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in California, founded in 2019.
FREE access to your historical data - you can chart your current job classification at your current employeer.
One month of FREE membership to access compariative tools:
- Comparison charts of your job classification with up to five other organizations of your choosing
- See future compensation projections to 2027 (based on your current MOU1 plus additional year of US-based CPI)
- Maintain access as an active donor membership: $15 for 3 months or $90 for 3 years (through your next MOU)
Acheived Milestones
Since our founding, we have:
- Free access to your historical data back to 2017
- 1,963,583 records from 296,406 California city and county employees' compensation is the data foundation of our human-managed study, and the basis for our AI charting models
- All 19,288 Job Classifications from 27 San Francisco Bay Area counties and cities with populations over 100,000 are currently included
- Members can chart their job classificions with MOU-based1 extrapolations upwards of three years into the future
- Members can compare their job classificions with MOU-based1 extrapolations upwards of three years into the future
- Outlying variances for part-time and partial-year staff's annual salaries are well filtered to minimize anomolies3
Our People
We’re a team of proactive problem solvers and obsessive number-crunchers, sharing the enhanced/automated/AI version of what we've been doing manually for many years.
Notes
- MOU (Memoranda of Understanding) - In accordance with state law, California cities and counties (organizations) generally participate in labor negotiations (also known as collective bargaining)
with its employee associations or bargaining units (often unionized). The result of the negotiation processes are written agreements or contracts reached between the organization and
the employee associations. Such an agreement is commonly referred to as a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU), which are usually multi-year. Organizations typically have multiple represented
employee associations within their organizations. Additionally, it is typical for the terms and benefits of employment for executive and senior management
employees to be governed by an executive compensation plan, instead of an MOU.
- Three year memberships - We use the term "three year" loosly. We will automatically, and freely extend the term through the activation of your next MOU agreement, so you will have
sustained membership access to these tools during any mid-term discovery or negociation processes.
- Historical Data - Circa 2023 and prior data for positions that are staffed seasonally (partial years) will display an average across those employees (not full-time annual values);
also, annual positions that were only staffed by a single person working a partial-year (i.e. newly hired or mid-year retired) will most definitely have values based
on their partial year and/or their initial "stepped" salary increases over time (will appear lower than the maximum offered).
Circa 2004 and newer data will most always be based on current City/County posted inforamtion, and links to that data are provided on our charts,
enabling you to directly check with them for the most current information.