The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Employee Earnings Report

Each year, the City of Boston publishes payroll data for employees. This dataset contains employee names, job details, and earnings information including base salary, overtime, and total compensation for employees of the City. See the "Payroll Categories" document below for an explanation of what…

Dataset

Publisher
Office of Human Resources
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
12
Keywords
earnings, employees, overtime, payroll, salary, wages
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/employee-earnings-report

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

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CSVpreserved2780939919a55bb60920224bdbd33615e3fb21a3da9874939bb2009faa12c1b1eb111afsource
CSVpreserved19676749c3b82ffc69d32f4c798b37e32293179d688b9d5e418337857e5d93982cf6e78source
CSVreferenced2519912—source
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Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

ColumnTypeDescription
NAMEtext
DEPARTMENT_NAMEtext
TITLEtext
REGULARtext
RETROtext
OTHERtext
OVERTIMEtext
INJUREDtext
DETAILtext
QUINN_EDUCATIONtext
TOTAL GROSStext
POSTALnumeric

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/d2368fabe966eafd859cfe8b520167fc/employee-earnings-report-columns.json — 1091 bytes, SHA-256 d2368fabe966eafd…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes Employee Earnings Report, and under what license?

Office of Human Resources publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does Employee Earnings Report cover?

In space, all.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is Employee Earnings Report?

12 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of Employee Earnings Report?

Yes, for 3 of 16 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for Employee Earnings Report, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Employee Earnings Report from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:employee-earnings-report
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/employee-earnings-report
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/employee-earnings-report.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
employee-earnings-report
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 12-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/d2368fabe966eafd859cfe8b520167fc/employee-earnings-report-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0