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Bellevue Municipal Employee Compensation
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Costs to the City for employee salary and benefits are itemised by individual job title. This resource offers crucial insights into municipal spending on personnel, tracking the financial burden to the City of Bellevue for wages, overtime, and associated fixed and variable benefits. The information allows for historical analysis of compensation structures.
Columns
The dataset features nine columns detailing various financial and categorical attributes:
- Year: The fiscal year the compensation data relates to.
- Department: The specific City department the employee is assigned to (e.g., Parks & Community Services or Fire).
- Job Code: A field identifying both the job code and job title (e.g., PRP402 - Police Officer).
- Wages: The direct salary paid to the employee, with an average recorded value of approximately 107k.
- Overtime: Payments made for working beyond scheduled hours. Note that data for this field is often missing, with valid entries only appearing in about 34% of records.
- Fixed Benefits: Standard, predictable benefits provided by the City.
- Variable Benefits: Benefits that fluctuate based on various factors.
- Total: The full cost of compensation to the City, including wages, overtime, and all benefits. The average total cost is approximately 150k.
- ObjectId: A unique identifier for each record.
Distribution
The data is presented in a CSV file format and contains around 17,100 valid records. While most critical fields have complete data coverage (100%), some compensation types, such as Overtime and Fixed Benefits, have notable percentages of missing values (66% and 23% missing, respectively). Data for key departments like Parks & Community Services makes up 30% of the entries, and Fire accounts for 14%. The dataset is archival, as its expected update frequency is listed as 'Never'.
Usage
This data product is perfectly suited for use cases involving transparency in government spending, longitudinal analysis of public sector pay scales, comparison of compensation across different municipal services, and detailed examination of job-specific salary ranges and benefit costs within Bellevue.
Coverage
The geographic area covered is the City of Bellevue. The data provides historical financial context, spanning from the year 2014 to the Present. The scope includes numerous job titles (444 unique codes) and department compensation records across the City’s governmental structure.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Journalists: To investigate and report on public employee salaries and the allocation of taxpayer funds.
- Budget Analysts: To model future personnel costs and assess historical departmental expenditure.
- Academic Researchers: To study labour economics and public administration trends within local governance.
- Citizens: To promote local government accountability and transparency regarding public employee payroll.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- Bellevue Municipal Employee Compensation
- City of Bellevue Personnel Costs 2014-Present
- Bellevue Salary and Benefits Data
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Original Data Source: Bellevue Municipal Employee Compensation
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