Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
The best outcomes are achieved when municipal officials have quick access to clean, reliable data to inform critical decisions.
With this in mind, in April the MMA announced a strategic partnership with LITIX CTC (formerly ArxEd) to provide comprehensive insights on municipal salaries, benefits, and working conditions — and save local officials from spending time searching for contracts, compiling data, and building spreadsheets.
The partnership began when Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources recommended LITIX CTC as the successor to the Benchmark program, citing its success with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, where 85% of districts now use LITIX products.
Since April, more than 50 municipalities have joined the new MMA-LITIX partnership.
The partnership:
• Supports fair, competitive compensation decisions and sustainable budgets
• Reduces partner workload by managing surveys and data entry
• Provides a robust statewide dataset for transparency, efficiency and wage market insights
• Analyzes and projects wage costs — an essential tool in the current municipal fiscal climate (as described by the MMA’s new “Perfect Storm” report)
How to participate
To ensure that cities and towns receive the critical data and insights they need, it is important to respond to data requests that come from LITIX and/or peer communities.
LITIX provides simple electronic forms with drop-downs that take less than an hour to complete — time invested for the benefit of local governments. The data is used solely for this purpose.
MMA members are advised to watch for and respond to data request emails from [email protected] or other LITIX team team members, as well as peer communities. Members are encouraged to ask their IT teams to add @arxed.com and @litix.ai to their municipality’s “allow” list to ensure emails aren’t quarantined.
For questions about the data collection or partnering with LITIX, contact LITIX at [email protected]. For questions about the MMA partnership, contact MMA Member Program Coordinator Martin Davis at [email protected] or 617-426-7272, ext. 104.