This budget priority report, issued in June 2022, analyzes racial equity and diversity in City employment. Looking at the City’s workforce composition between FY 2018-19 and FY 2020-21, the report finds that as a whole, the percentage of City employees represented by people of color (all racial/ethnic groups other than White) increased from 70.9 percent to 72.1 percent; the percentage of people of color newly hired into the City workforce declined slightly from 73 percent to 72.1 percent; and, employees of color achieved more promotions than White employees, but their share of total citywide promotions declined from 69.8 percent to 66.6 percent. The report provides recommendations on options for further investment and data collection to assess efforts at improving diversity and racial equity within the City’s workforce.
