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Council hearing examines long-term city vacancies and $42 million in assumed salary savings
Summary
City officials told a Boston City Council committee on March 4 that citywide hiring has improved after targeted efforts, but departments still show hundreds of open positions and the administration budgets about $42 million in assumed salary savings for vacancies.
A Boston City Council committee on labor and workforce held a hearing March 4 to review long-term vacancies across city departments and the budget treatment of unfilled positions. Chair Benjamin Weber said the hearing (docket 0254) was intended to help the council understand why positions remain open and whether money budgeted for those roles could be used elsewhere as the city prepares its fiscal 2026 budget.
Ashley Grafrenberger, the city’s chief financial officer, told the committee that the city budgets total personnel costs for departments and offsets those totals with an assumption for salary savings to account for vacancies during the year. “We assume that at any point in the year, there will be vacancies,” Grafrenberger said, and added that “we have assumed total salary savings across the…
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