LA City Payroll Panel

Person-level City of Los Angeles pay 2017-2026 with an aggregate extension to 2013: department-year panels, overtime leaderboards, above-the-mayor counts and DWP pay comparisons, in nominal and constant 2025 dollars.

Updated

Sept. 1, 2026

Desk

Money

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What ships

51 departments, 13 years. CSV files with a column dictionary and licensing terms.

Files

• above_mayor_counts.csv1 KB
• citywide_year.csv1 KB
• dept_year.csv67 KB
• dwp_matched_titles_2024.csv1 KB
• dwp_summary_2024.csv1 KB
• ot_leaderboard.csv19 KB

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Columns in above_mayor_counts.csv

• pay_year
• mayor_total_pay
• employees_above
• dwp
• fire
• police
• harbor
• note

Reporting built on it

• One LAFD administrator made 950k last year and he'll probably make $1.1 million this year