I work for the California State University system. Using FOIA requests, various media outlets have built up a database where we can see everyone's salary. For e

I work for the California State University system. Using FOIA requests, various media outlets have built up a database where we can see everyone's salary. For example: http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/ http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/ Overall, I would say this has not been a bad thing for us employees. 1. Transparent government is a good thing. 2. I am very sympathetic to a number of people who receive less base compensation then they would in the private sector with similar responsibilities. 3. It shows the importance of career path as there are bands per department (e.g. engineers in one range, computer people in a separate range). Still, there are down sides. 1. The upper management has found ways to hide salary and compensation. 2. It does lead to some discontent when people are told their is no money for a raise, but person X manages to get one.