CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Local 12's investigation into the pay disparity between White and Black employees at Cincinnati City Hall is drawing a response from the city and a national employment group.
The city took issue with Local 12's numbers yesterday, because some of the employees included in the analysis are union members, which means union agreements limit who the city can and cannot hire. The city was right, those numbers should have been excluded.
So, this time Local 12 used the city's guidelines and re-crunched the data. The numbers didn't change much.
City of Cincinnati, employment experts comment on Black-White pay gap at City Hall (WKRC, file)
Local 12's story was a follow-up on an initial investigation done in April 2022, that discovered the large pay gap between Black and White employees. When applying the city's parameters to the database, it still showed that in April of 2022, 70% of the $100,000+ jobs were held by White people, versus 20% held by Black people.
When those rules were applied to today's numbers, the gap widens. It's nearly 72% White versus 20% Black.
Just looking at the people who have been hired or promoted since the initial story, the numbers aren't much better. 69% of the $100,000+ jobs went to White applicants, 25% went to Black applicants.
When Local 12 spoke to the city's HR department about the disparity, they pointed out the recent Black hires at City Hall.
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