Citywide
The whole payroll at once. Use Look up for a single title or agency, or Compare to rank them.
Pay, prices and rent
The pay line is a median, not a raise. It is the middle salary across everyone employed that year. When the City hires many people into lower-paid titles the median falls even if no individual salary was cut, and the reverse when hiring is concentrated at the top. For an actual job over time, look up the title.
Two rent measures. The index above uses the BLS series for rent of primary residence in the New York area, which tracks what sitting tenants pay and is built like the inflation series, so the two are comparable. The dollar figures use Zillow, which measures asking rents on listed units: more visceral, less representative of anyone who has not moved recently.
Gender gap
How gender is inferred. The payroll does not record it. These figures come from matching first names against Social Security birth registrations and weighting each person by how often that name was registered male or female. It estimates sex recorded at birth, cannot see non-binary people, and misses about one employee in ten. It is an estimate of a population pattern and says nothing about any individual.
Why the split matters. A gap that sits mostly inside job titles points at pay audits within classifications. A gap that sits mostly between titles points somewhere else: who gets hired into which jobs, which promotion paths exist, and whether historically female-dominated titles are paid comparably to male-dominated ones doing work of similar skill.
Name origin gap
What this measures. Employees whose first name appears in US birth records against those whose does not. Whether your name is in those records is largely a function of whether you or your parents were born in the United States, so this is a proxy for national origin rather than a neutral category. It is here because the gap is real and larger than the gender gap, not because the category is a natural one.
Hourly and day-rate workers
Crossing guards, school aides, seasonal parks staff and election workers. Every other figure on this site covers salaried employees only.
Many records show a $1 base rate or zero regular hours. About half of it carries a base rate of exactly $1.00, nearly all of them election workers paid a flat per-day stipend the payroll stores as a placeholder. Around three quarters show zero regular hours for the year. Averaging the roster whole produces a number describing nobody, so placeholders are separated out and the continuously employed reported apart.