Human Resource Services and
Workforce and Economic Program
Services Updates
October 2026
INVESTING IN
PEOPLE,
DELIVERING FOR
OUR COMMUNITY
Human Resource Services (HRS) is a strategic
partner in managing workforce needs, helping
employees grow, empowering leaders, and
supporting teams to do their best work.
Human Resource
Services: Progress and
Internal Hire Highlights
Sourcing & Recruitment
• Community Outreach & Talent Pipeline
• SFPUC's annual career fair at the Southeast
Community Center in Bayview attracted more
than 200 local job seekers
• Strengthened partnerships with bay area
colleges, including USF, SF State, Skyline
College, and City College
• Same-Day Hiring Event
• 981 applications
• 30 candidates interviewed by 3 SFPUC
divisions
• 13 candidates received same day offers
• LinkedIn Recruiter & Digital Recruitment
• 52,876 job views generated across SFPUC
LinkedIn posting in 2026
Same-Day Hiring Event on April 8, 2026
Vacancy Rate for Permanent Funded Positions (Since FY20/21) FY26-27
September 2026
Current permanent funded
position vacancy rate
● 20.5%
Since FY23-24, total permanent
funded positions increased
● 147 positions
FY23-24 Positions = 2,666 FY26-27 Sept 2026 Positions = 2,813
Permanent Funded Position Vacancy Rate (Total Positions vs. Vacant Positions) FY26-27
September 2026
Permanent Funded Position Vacancy Rate
● 20.5%
Total Permanent Funded Positions
● 2,813
Vacant Permanent Funded Positions
● 577
This data excludes temporary positions and
commissioners.
Employee Internal Retention
Includes Promotions & Appointment Type Changes
FY22/23 - FY26/27
Data from September 2026
Total # of Separation Transactions
# of Internal Retention
Includes internal promotions &
appointment type changes (temporary-to-
permanent)
Approximately 45% to 55% internal
retention rate during the last 5 fiscal
years
Employee
Experience &
Engagement
**in response to the Employee Voice Survey
• Employee Voice Surveys
• Established the Employee Listening Program
• Ask HRS Office Hours
• Agency-wide recognition and resource events **
• Public Service Recognition Events
• Employee Resource Fair
• HRS Open House
• Expanded communications
Employee experience and engagement form the foundation of a high- performing workplace where people feel valued, empowered, and aligned with the organization’s mission and values.
Professional development serves as a critical, proactive succession management tool.
• Visier Career Pathing & Sourcing Tool***
• Career Development Workshop Series**
• Department-wide roll out of
Supervision Academy for all supervisors and
managers***
• Learning and Organization Development
delivered trainings to 1,231 employees in
2025
**in response to the Employee Voice Survey
***in response to the Racial Equity Action Plan & the Employee Voice Survey Workforce and Economic
Program Services:
Workers, Contractors, and
Market Engagement
Workforce and
Economic Program
Services
• 2 Major Lines of Work
• Workforce – People / Workers /Jobs
• Economic – Businesses / Contractors /
Contracts
• Affirmative Programming
• PLA
• Project Pull
• Contractors Assistance Center
• Impacts of Our Capital Investments
• Liaison to City Departments
Sewer System Improvement Program
• Local Hire – Individual Workers
• City’s Local Hire Ordinance requirement – 20% to 30%
• Sewer System Improvement Project Local Hire participation – 34.3% • $162.5 million in wages and benefits earned by San Francisco residents • D10 Residents worked 32.4% of all SF resident hours
• $48.9 million in wages and benefits earned
• City’s Local Hire Ordinance requirement for apprentices – 50% • SSIP apprentice participation – 55.8%
• D10 Residents worked 36.8% of all SF resident apprentice hours
Sewer System Improvement Program
• LBEs – Contractors
• 334 SF LBEs awarded 1,115
contracts both as prime and
subcontractors on professional
services and construction contracts
on SSIP
• D10 LBEs – 171 LBEs awarded
655 contracts
• $990.7 million awarded to LBEs
• D10 LBEs – $601.1 million
awarded
PROJECT CONTRACT
VALUE
CURRENT LH
PART (30% REQ)
CURRENT APP
PART (50% REQ) TOTAL HOURS LBE REQ CURRENT
LBE PART
TOTAL DOLLARS
TO LBEs
BIOSOLIDS $2.25 B 33% 59% 2,476,706 12% 20% $ 441,205,311 CDD 2000 MARIN $329.2 M 29% 63% 263,551 16% 22% $ 60,984,318
SUNOL VALLEY
OZONATION $234.8 M 49% 48% 159,302 8% 6% $ 20,386,672
BAY CORRIDOR
TRAMISSION AND
DISTRIBTUION
$184.5 M 44% 54% 259,123 3% - 15% 19% $ 34,885,401
TREASURE ISLAND $181.5 M 42% 68% 265,364 15% 22% $ 25,827,943 Major Projects
data through September 2026
Market
Engagement
Strategies
• What We Have Done: gathered
information about what the market
is seeking from owners
• What We Are Doing: event for Owner’s
Agent contracts, for example, to share
project details and seek feedback
• What We Need to Keep Doing:
continuously improve our efforts at
attracting the market to our projects