Total City Employee Compensation

Total Compensation for All City of San Antonio Employees

Our employees are the heart and soul of the City of San Antonio. As is the case with most organizations, personnel costs – salaries and benefits for the more than 15,000 employees of the City of San Antonio to include full time, part time, seasonal and temporary employees – are one of the largest components of the City of San Antonio’s annual adopted budget.

There are three categories of employees within the City organization: uniform fire, uniform police, and civilian. While civilian employees’ and City Council Aides Corporation (LGC) aides’ salaries and benefits are based on established job class salary ranges and benefit programs annually reviewed and adopted by City Council, salaries and benefits for uniform fire and uniform police employees are established by collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) negotiated by public safety unions. As required by the CBAs, the City incurs additional costs for the benefit of uniform employees, such as Employee Healthcare, Legal Fund contributions and Prepaid Vision and Dental.

In FY 2023, the City supported 15,501 employees issuing payments equaling $970.0 million in total wages and $1.4 billion in total compensation across the City’s departments and funds. These costs are broken out between the three categories as follows:

Uniform Fire
1,821 employees were paid out $195.1 million in total wages and $289.6 million in total compensation
Uniform Police
2,582 employees were paid out $272.8 million in total wages and $404.3 million in total compensation
Civilian
11,098 employees were paid out $504.1 million in total wages and $675.1 million in total compensation

In FY 2023, the LGC supported 117 employees issuing payments equaling $6.3 million in total wages and $8.2 million in total compensation.

Total wages include such items as:

  • base salary
  • certification pay
  • overtime
  • leave pay
  • education pay
  • tuition reimbursement
  • student loan repayment
  • allowances

For Uniform Fire and Police, it also includes arbitration awards and settlements which are reflected in a separate column. Total compensation includes additional benefits for employees which are contributed by the City, such as pension matching, current employee and retiree healthcare, and wellness contributions.

Enclosed in the links below are Total Compensation Reports for all City employees and another tab for the LGC’s employees who either received a paycheck during a given fiscal year or were actively employed by the City or LGC as of fiscal year end.

City Compensation Reports

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