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City reports 6.6% vacancy rate as of June 3; DHR outlines hiring reforms under AB 2561
Summary
The Department of Human Resources told the Board committee that San Francisco’s citywide vacancy rate was 6.6% as of June 3, 2025, and outlined process improvements — including on-demand online exams, civil service rule rewrites and a career center — to reduce hiring delays. The committee voted 3-0 to file the AB 2561 report.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee held a required hearing June 27 under California Assembly Bill 2561 to receive the city’s annual report on vacancies, recruitment and retention. Carol Eisen, director of the Department of Human Resources (DHR), told the committee the data presented were current as of June 3, 2025.
Eisen said the city’s calculation methodology starts with funded positions in the annual salary ordinance, subtracts budgeted attrition and then subtracts filled positions to produce a vacancy count. Using that approach, she said the city had 39,664 FTEs in the salary ordinance and reported a citywide vacancy rate of 6.6% as of June 3. For ongoing, on-budget operating positions, she reported a 4.3% vacancy rate.
Why it matters: AB 2561 requires California cities to report vacancies and hiring efforts to legislative bodies while budgets are…
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