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City of Lansing 2024 Payroll

Introduction

The following information comes from a report provided by the City in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. It provides detail on all payments made to employees and retirees in 2024. Employees are addressed first below, followed by the retirees. Here is the report as received, before I reformatted and sorted it to create meaningful lists.

Retirees

The report I was provided has 3135 lines of data (records). 1279 are for employees who received wages in 2024 (above), 1855 are for retirees, and 9 are for former employees who took a refund of their retirement accounts. If an employee retired during 2024, he may have both an active employee record and a retiree record (he will not if he took a deferred retirement in a previous year.)

Of the 1855 retiree records, 61 have a date of death.

That leaves 1792 retirees who are still receiving pensions. In the file I was provided, the same column headings used for active employees were also used for retirees, which is kind of confusing. For the retirees, I came up with headings more appropriate to the data they appear to contain:

For retirees, I didn't use the Hourly Rate, Overtime or Buyout columns at all.

Here are the employees who quit and took refunds of their retirement accounts: