What is Boston Payroll?
Boston Payroll is a public-data website that organizes the City of Boston Employee Earnings Report into pages for years, departments, titles, and employee-name entries.
City of Boston public payroll explorer
Boston Payroll FAQ
These answers cover the scope of the dataset, how employee pages work, and how to interpret payroll categories such as overtime and retro pay.
Does an employee page always represent one person?
Not necessarily. The source dataset is name-based, so one page may include multiple records filed under the same name across years.
What do overtime, retro, and other pay mean?
These are payroll categories reported in the source dataset. Definitions can vary by bargaining agreement, job, and reporting practice, so the site describes them as reported rather than inferring intent.
Where does the data come from?
The data comes from the Analyze Boston Employee Earnings Report dataset. This site imports the annual downloadable files, normalizes the fields, and generates aggregated pages.