A. SUMMARY
The San Francisco Controller's Office maintains a database of the salary and benefits paid to City employees since fiscal year 2013.

B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED
This data is summarized and presented on the Employee Compensation report hosted at http://openbook.sfgov.org, and is also available in this dataset in CSV format.

C. UPDATE PROCESS
New data is added on a bi-annual basis when available for each fiscal and calendar year.

D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET
Before using please first review the following two resources:
Data Dictionary - Can be found in 'About this dataset' section after click 'Show More'
Employee Compensation FAQ - https://support.datasf.org/help/employee-compensation-faq

The San Francisco Controller's Office maintains a database of budgetary staffing data that appears in summarized form in each Annual Salary Ordinance (ASO). This data is presented on the Budget report hosted at http://openbook.sfgov.org, and is also available in this dataset in CSV format. New data is added on an annual basis when the ASO is published for each new fiscal year. Data is available from fiscal year 2010 forward.

The San Francisco Controller's Office maintains a database of actual citywide staffing data from fiscal year 2003 forward. This data is presented on the Spending and Revenue report hosted at http://openbook.sfgov.org, and is also available in this dataset in CSV format. New data is added on a weekly basis.