RALEIGH — The Wake County Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is costing taxpayers more than a million dollars in 2025.
A public records request revealed the office’s adopted budget for 2025 is more than $1.171 million. That’s a 32.4% increase over the previous year’s approved budget total of $884,245 and a nearly eightfold increase over the first adopted budget in 2022 of $131,008.
The records show the adopted budget for 2025 for salaries and benefits of all staff, including part-time employees, accounts for $968,471 of the overall total. Regular salaries and wages without benefits included totaled $679,489…