Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year) — NYC Open Data

Data is collected because of public interest in how the City’s budget is being spent on salary and overtime pay for all municipal employees. Data is input into the City's Personnel Management System (“PMS”) by the respective user Agencies. This Actor returns it as one flat JSON row per record, with 17 declared fields — typed, named and documented in the dataset schema, so a spreadsheet or an agent can use it without guessing.

What you get

Field	Type	Meaning
total_other_pay	number	Total Other Pay
mid_init	string	Mid Init
first_name	string	First Name
agency_name	string	Agency Name
work_location_borough	string	Work Location Borough
title_description	string	Title Description
base_salary	number	Base Salary
pay_basis	string	Pay Basis
regular_gross_paid	number	Regular Gross Paid
ot_hours	number	OT Hours
total_ot_paid	number	Total OT Paid
last_name	string	Last Name
payroll_number	number	Payroll Number
regular_hours	number	Regular Hours
leave_status_as_of_june_30	string	Leave Status as of June 30
fiscal_year	number	Fiscal Year
agency_start_date	string	Agency Start Date

Every row also carries sourceRowId, sourceUpdatedAt and scrapedAt, so a pipeline can tell one record from another and know exactly when it was read.

{
  "total_other_pay": 732.41,
  "mid_init": "F",
  "first_name": "DERRICK",
  "agency_name": "ADMIN FOR CHILDREN'S SVCS",
  "work_location_borough": "MANHATTAN",
  "title_description": "CHILD PROTECTIVE SPECIALIST SUPERVISOR",
  "base_salary": 106346,
  "pay_basis": "per Annum"
}

Inputs

Field	What it does
Filter (SoQL)	Applied at the source, so a narrow question fetches a narrow page instead of downloading everything.
Order	Empty keeps the publisher's own order; set a column to sort, for example amount DESC.
Maximum rows	Hard cap. The source is paged 1,000 rows at a time.
Time budget	Stops cleanly and reports how far it got.
Pause between pages	Keeps the run inside the publisher's rate limits.

Limitations

• This is one dataset, from one publisher. It is the Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year) dataset as Office of Payroll Administration (OPA) publishes it — not a national or cross-city equivalent, and not a merge with other sources.
• The publisher can change it. Columns are added, renamed and retired upstream; the field list here is the schema the Actor was generated from. A renamed column arrives as a new field only after the Actor is updated.
• Fields are typed from live records. A column that was empty in the sample is declared as text; a value that does not fit the declared type comes back null rather than being coerced into a wrong number.
• Records are what the publisher publishes. No geocoding, no de-duplication across datasets, no enrichment.
• Freshness is the publisher's. The data was last changed upstream on 2026-04-16. Where the publisher supplies a row timestamp it appears as sourceUpdatedAt; scrapedAt records when this Actor read the row.

Why this is different

• Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year) — NYC Open Data declares all 17 of its output fields in the dataset schema, each with a type, a description and an example.
• The Actor reads the Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year) dataset directly from NYC Open Data; no key, login or account is needed.
• Filters run at the source with SoQL, so a narrow request returns a narrow page rather than a full download.
• Every row is flat JSON: nested location objects become latitude and longitude, and no field holds a nested object.
• The row id is stable, so the same request de-duplicates instead of returning the same record twice.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. NYC Open Data publishes this dataset openly.

How fresh is it? The Actor reads the dataset live. scrapedAt records when each row was read, and sourceUpdatedAt carries the publisher's own row timestamp where it supplies one.

Can I filter by date or status? Yes — use the Filter field with SoQL, for example status = 'Active'.

What happens if my filter is wrong? The run stops with the portal's own message and the hint to check SoQL, rather than returning an empty dataset that looks like "no data".

Is this the whole dataset? Up to your row cap, paged 1,000 at a time. Raise the cap to read more.

What is sourceRowId? The publisher's own row id when it supplies one, otherwise a stable hash of the row. Either way it is what makes de-duplication and joins possible.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.0005 per row. Each stored dataset row is billed, including any diagnostic row returned instead of results.

An Actor-start event is also charged at $0.0001 per GB of allocated memory (minimum one event), even if no rows are returned. At 1 GB or less, 1,000 result rows cost $0.5001 before any applicable Store discount.

Data source

NYC Open Data — Citywide Payroll Data (Fiscal Year), published by Office of Payroll Administration (OPA). Public data under the portal's open-data terms.