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Human Resources Benefits

WORKERS' COMPENSATION

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The Personnel Department administers the City's Workers' Compensation Program which covers all City
employees, excluding the Department of Water and Power. This page provides information on the City's workers'
compensation expenditures by City department over the prior five fiscal years from 2016-17 to 2020-21.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION EXPENDITURES BY DEPARTMENT
(in millions)
DEPARTMENT 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 TOTAL PERCENT OF TOTAL
Fire-Sworn $52.3 $55.8 $51.3 $59.1 $62.7 $281.2 21.0%
General Services 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.8 4.0 22.8 1.7%
Police-Civilian 10.5 10.4 11.2 9.6 9.7 51.4 3.8%
Police-Sworn 115.5 127.8 134.7 151.6 175.7 705.3 52.8%
Public Works-Sanitation 8.8 9.9 10.0 9.6 10.4 48.7 3.6%
Recreation and Parks 5.8 6.1 6.4 5.5 5.2 29.0 2.2%
Transportation 7.3 6.4 6.6 6.9 6.9 34.1 2.6%
Proprietary 14.5 14.6 16.4 16.8 16.5 78.8 5.9%
All Other 15.8 16.9 17.6 17.9 17.3 85.5 6.4%
TOTAL $235.2 $252.6 $258.8 $281.8 $308.5 $1,336.9 100.0%

Workers' compensation expenditures include payments made from the Human Resources Benefits Fund, Workers'
Compensation Account, for benefits and rehabilitation bills, claims, and awards and salary continuation, also known
as injury on duty (IOD) payments, made from a department's Salaries General or Salaries Sworn Account for
employees on workers' compensation leave. The six City departments identified comprise approximately 88
percent of all workers' compensation expenditures from 2016-17 to 2020-21. Proprietary departments include
Department of Airports, Harbor Department, Fire and Police Pensions, and City Employees' Retirement System. All
Other includes all other City departments.

INJURY ON DUTY (IOD) HOURS BY DEPARTMENT
(in thousands)
DEPARTMENT 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 TOTAL PERCENT OF TOTAL
Fire-Sworn 453.6 472.5 378.4 508.0 515.6 2,328.1 24.5%
General Services 34.9 33.8 39.7 36.2 20.5 165.1 1.7%
Police-Civilian 75.8 67.3 84.7 65.8 70.2 363.8 3.8%
Police-Sworn 682.3 780.6 770.0 894.1 1,130.6 4,257.6 44.9%
Public Works-Sanitation 89.6 110.2 107.2 98.8 111.7 517.5 5.4%
Recreation and Parks 64.0 49.0 54.9 51.8 49.7 269.4 2.8%
Transportation 75.2 57.7 56.0 58.3 63.0 310.2 3.3%
Proprietary 121.5 137.9 149.1 148.9 113.1 670.5 7.1%
All Other 87.7 124.1 141.8 143.6 123.5 620.7 6.5%
TOTAL 1,684.6 1,833.1 1,781.8 2,005.5 2,197.9 9,502.9 100.0%

IOD hours represent the number of hours not worked by City employees on workers' compensation leave. Over
five years, City employees incurred an average of approximately 1.9 million IOD hours per fiscal year, which is
equivalent to an average of 914 full-time employees absent from work per fiscal year.

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