City Financial Data
Financial data reports including employee compensation data, City accounts payable data, and local debt policy.
Employee Compensation Data
Gross
Annual Compensation Data by Position
Compensation data provides ten elements of data for City of Chico employees. Each document provides annualized gross compensation and benefits data broken down by employee and by five categories of compensation. The categories of compensation are as follows:
- Regular Pay – includes all hours associated with work, leave hours (vacation, sick, holiday, admin, holiday, and bereavement), workers compensation time, light duty, and jury duty.
- Overtime Pay – includes various types of overtime pay and callback pay.
- Special Pay – includes premium pays such as shift differentials, certification pays, holiday premiums, and duty pays (gang unit, rescue team, school resource officer, etc.).
- Additional Pay – includes alternate pays such as termination vacation payouts, sick leave payouts, auto and phone allowances, and severance payments.
- Fringe Pay – includes employer compensation for medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits. Further, includes deferred compensation and life insurance payments.
NOTE: Employee position and department reflect the most current as of the end date of the activity range. For example, 2018 annual report would include an employee’s position and department as of December 31, 2018.
The City is self-insured for workers compensation; as a result, pay for employees on workers compensation will be reflected in the Regular Pay line items and not Fringe Pay starting in 2015.
Starting with the 2017 report, the City of Chico is converting its employee compensation reporting to match the requirements established by the California State Controller who will require in 2018 that cities exclude unfunded liability payments from active employee compensation in order to facilitate consistent reporting and improve the comparability and transparency of compensation information published by the State Controller. As such, the City made the conversion in July 2017 to its data system. As a result, the 2017 report will still overstate total employee compensation by about half a year’s worth of unfunded liability and in 2018, will be reporting no unfunded liability.
California State Controller Compensation Reports:
The California State Controller’s Officer requires cities to provide annual compensation reports, which report Medicare wages for public employees. The reports are not comparable to the Gross Annual Compensation Data reports shown above, as the City of Chico’s reports provide a more accurate accounting of the gross compensation received by employees.
PERS Actuarial Valuation Reports
FY2024-25 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2024-25 Safety Plan
FY2023-24 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2023-24 Safety Plan
FY2022-23 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2022-23 Safety Plan
FY2021-22 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2021-22 Safety Plan
FY2020-21 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2020-21 Safety Plan
FY2019-20 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2019-20 Safety Plan
FY2018-19 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2018-19 Safety Plan
FY2017-18 Miscellaneous Plan
FY2017-18 Safety Plan
City Accounts Payable Data
Gross Payment Data by Vendor
The City tracks all payments to vendors for services and products rendered to the City. In accounting terms, these type of expenses are called non-personnel transactions.
Non-personnel transactions do not include the salary and benefits normally paid to employees. However, in limited cases, there are expenses shown in the accounts payable system that are also part of an employees’ compensation. (Salary and benefits are listed under Employee Compensation above.)
The City publishes a monthly payments report (in PDF) of all disbursements that include all the transactions listed in the accounts payable system. This excel report includes more detail and allows the user to filter and analyze data with more ease.
Data: The dataset provides significant detail that allows a user to evaluate City payments by fund, department, accounting category, accounting object code line item, vendor, description, and date of payment. The elements of accounts payable data are as follows:
- Department – includes both the department (Police, Fire, etc.) and sub units within the department (Police-Detectives, Fire-Reimbursable Overtime, etc.).
- Category – includes a roll up of several object codes into higher levels (Materials & Supplies, Purchased Services, etc.).
- Object Code – includes the lowest level classifying expenses (Office expenses, training, professional, services, etc.).
- Vendor – includes the specific entity in which the payment was made.
- Description – includes brief details regarding the transaction.
- Dates of Payment – includes the post date which is the date the payment is classified in the financial management system as well as the check date which is the date the vendor check is issued.
Accounts Payable 2022
Accounts Payable 2021
Accounts Payable 2019
Accounts Payable 2018
Accounts Payable 2017
Local Debt Policy
The purpose of this Local Debt Policy (this “Policy”) is to establish guidelines and parameters for the effective governance, management and administration of debt and other financing obligations issued by the City of Chico and its related entities (such as the Chico Public Financing Authority and the Successor Agency to the Chico Redevelopment Agency).