The City Can’t Fill 130 Jobs. The Math Explains Why.
Palm Bay, FL -- Palm Bay has 130 full-time positions sitting empty. That is not a staffing glitch. It is a symptom. And the symptom has a number attached to it: $23,000.
That is roughly how far the city’s median employee salary falls short of the income needed to buy the median-priced home here. The city pays its workers. The workers just cannot afford to live where they work.
This is a math problem, not a management problem. But math problems left unaddressed become management problems fast, and Palm Bay is already feeling the pressure.
130 Empty Chairs
The city budgeted 1,078.91 full-time…
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