(Illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource)
The county’s top health official was its highest-paid employee during the pandemic’s first full year.
by Charlie Wolfson, PublicSource
Allegheny County continued a yearslong trend of spending roughly $29 million on overtime in 2021.
In total, the county paid a total of $321.3 million to 6,330 employees last year.
Like in 2020, the county’s biggest areas were:
- Department of Human Services (974 employees and 15% of the county’s gross payroll)
- Allegheny County Jail (674 employees and 14% of the county’s gross payroll)
- Kane Centers nursing homes (978 employees and 13% of the county’s gross payroll).
More people left county jobs in 2021 than were hired, and some essential services such as health, emergency management and nursing homes absorbed big personnel losses.
Disparities
The racial and gender breakdown of the county’s workforce in 2021 largely matched that of the county’s population, with 80% of employees being white and 50% being male.
There were pay disparities between demographic groups. Among full- and part-time employees, men had a median salary 20% higher than women, $52,156 to $43,246. White men earned a higher median salary than any other group ($52,840), and Black women had the lowest median salary of any group ($41,604).
(Note: Data provided by the county included only binary gender information, with all employees labeled either male or female.)
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