Health & Hospitals
A family of city jobs
In FY2025, San Francisco paid $1.1B to 5,984 employees in health & hospitals jobs, a median of $172,994 each, 16.6% of the city payroll. Source: SF Controller employee compensation (open data).
Exact percentiles over the 5,919 people whose main job that year was in this family, total compensation included. A low median means part-time and partial-year staff, not a low hourly rate. Compare every kind of work →
$604.8M in FY2013 → $1.1B in FY2025, with 6,334 → 5,984 people. Nominal dollars, not inflation-adjusted.
+ 1 smaller departments
Compensation for the health & hospitals family, FY2013–FY2025, aggregated from the Controller’s employee-compensation data. Employee Compensation ↗
No dollar aggregate in this file covers fewer than 5 employees. Groups under 5 people are pooled into visible 'Other roles' rows per department; pools that would themselves stay under the threshold are folded into the department total with no row. Departments under the threshold (the Law Library in practice, 2-3 people) are included in citywide totals but not listed.