City-Parish Employee Annual Salaries Post-2018

City-Parish Employee Annual Salaries dataset contains payroll information for government employees in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Data includes job codes, department names, and various pay components like shift differential and education pay. The dataset is maintained by data.brla.gov and covers employee information from 2018 onward following a payroll system change.

Use Cases

• Analyze compensation disparities across departments using DEPARTMENT NAME and pay components like EDUCATION PAY and SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL PAY.
• Model employee retention factors by correlating EMPLOYMENT STATUS with LONGEVITY and TOTAL OT HOURS.
• Audit special assignment costs by aggregating SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT and PRISON ASSIGNMENT pay across job codes.
• Forecast payroll budgets by analyzing trends in TOTAL OT PAY, WORKERS COMP, and SEVERANCE PAY over time.

Strengths

• Contains over 30 specific pay component columns for detailed compensation analysis
• Data is updated annually after the final payroll run for consistency

Limitations

• Department and job title fields reflect only the employee's status at data capture time, not year-long history
• Historical data prior to 2018 is unavailable in this collection, requiring a separate legacy dataset

Provenance

Source

data.brla.gov

Collection Method

Calculated from the City-Parish payroll system after the last payroll run of each year

Time Range

2018 onward

Freshness

Updated annually

Geography

Baton Rouge, Louisiana (City-Parish)