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Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
The MMA today announced a partnership with ArxED, a Massachusetts-based company that empowers municipal leaders with data that offers critical insights for labor negotiations, salary benchmarking and proactive budget planning.
At the center of this collaboration is the launch of LITIX Insights, an interactive data platform designed to bring greater transparency, efficiency and clarity to municipal budgeting across the Commonwealth.
LITIX Insights was selected by a Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources salary survey subcommittee as an alternative to the MMHR’s previous salary survey database, Benchmark, which was discontinued last year.
On April 28, ArxEd will be hosting a webinar at noon to introduce and demonstrate the LITIX product to municipal leaders. The MMA will send an invitation to all chief municipal officers and HR directors.
The LITIX data platform has already been introduced to an initial cohort of 14 communities, who have agreed to provide feedback. ArxEd is currently recruiting a second, limited cohort of 36 communities — those who are interested in the product and pricing may contact info@arxed.com — and the company expects to fully roll out the tool to all interested communities by the end of 2025.
The LITIX Insights platform will offer:
• Robust workforce data: Including historical salary data, non-union pay tables, and comprehensive fringe benefits information
• Collective bargaining agreement data: Covering all bargaining units, including police, fire, public works, municipal officials, and labor/trade sectors
• Dynamic visualizations: Interactive tools to explore and compare salaries, benefits, and compensation trends across municipalities
• Settlement Forecasting: Real-time modeling applications that help forecast salary increases and simulate CBA settlement scenarios to provide municipal leaders with the data and confidence needed to offer competitive, sustainable compensation packages
“Building on our successful partnership with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and our work with over 80% of school districts statewide, we are proud to expand our efforts to municipal government through this collaboration with the MMA,” said Michael Mastrullo, co-founder and CEO of LITIX. “Our goal is to deliver solutions that simplify access to complex data, and empower every Massachusetts municipality to make confident, well-informed decisions that support their workforce and their communities.”
The ArxEd team may be reaching out to member communities for some information in order to gather data from comparable communities. Those who receive a data request from ArxED are not required to respond, but the MMA encourages them to participate.
Comparison data is needed in order for the product to be robust and effective. Those who have provided data (such as non-union contracts, for example) say it takes only an hour or less of their time, because the majority of data collection and maintenance for this product is conducted by ArxED.
Questions about the product and pricing may be sent to info@arxed.com. Questions about the MMA’s partnership may be sent to MMA Member Program Coordinator Anneke Craig at acraig@mma.org or 617-426-7272, ext. 104.