Workforce Demographic Dashboard

Palo Alto’s Equity Mission Statement reinforces the City’s continued focus on diversity and equity:

The City of Palo Alto is committed to creating a respectful, fair, and professional workplace and city. We will identify prejudices, eliminate inequities, welcome many perspectives, and use a collaborative approach to create an environment that works for everyone. The City's commitment to achieve equity in Palo Alto is the shared responsibility of our residents, organizations, governments, and other institutions.

Race & Equity - Actions and Highlights

Demographics

This dashboard offers an annual snapshot / summary taken each October of the City of Palo Alto’s workforce demographics, and is gathered through information provided by employees. As is standard with demographic data reporting, this information is shared in the aggregate to protect individual privacy, meaning certain groups have been merged to prevent any data display that could lead to personal individual identification. This approach allows the City to maintain individual confidentiality while still gaining valuable insights into our organizational demographics.

The data in the following dashboard is from October 2023.

City Workforce Demographics Summary(PDF, 596KB)

 

*The MGMT group includes non-represented job classifications, ranging from journey-level such as Accountants to director-level positions such as Director of Libraries. It encompasses a variety of roles, including administrative support, individual contributors and managers.

Below is additional DEI data reported by other agencies, provided as reference and resources.