Worcester’s chief diversity officer role was the lowest-paid chief position in the City cabinet in 2020, making a salary roughly $74,000 lower than the average c-suite city employee, according to 2020 data on Worcester’s website.
"We have gone backwards. With a population so diverse we now only have one person of color in the leadership of the administration and no Black women," wrote Fred Taylor, president of Worcester’s NAACP Unit, in a letter.