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USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?
by rmc 13y ago
USA is weird. How come you can get this data on people's personal lives? Why do you not have privacy laws?
- anonymoushn 13y agoThey are public employees. Wouldn't it be a bit weirder to expect people to pay taxes without knowing what they were spent on?
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- cmsmith 13y agoWe should know where our tax dollars are going, but I don't really see the problem with anonomizing the data - at least for the bottom 95% of earners. There are also aspects of government spending which would be way more interesting to me (and way more likely to be evidence of corruption) than how much my neighbor the train mechanic makes.
- rmc 13y agoPublic employees are still people, and hence have the right to privacy.
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- vinhboy 13y agoThe thing that bothers me is that it only has information for people working in government related jobs. For example, you can also get the name, salary, and title of all state workers. I find that kind of wrong. Why not make the list anonymous.
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- yannyu 13y agoPublic employee salary is public knowledge: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area As an aside, I think the hush-hush nature of salary is pretty silly to begin with, and really only hurts employees.
- webjprgm 13y agoI might point out that some employment contracts specifically say you can't discuss salary with fellow employees. (I know I read it somewhere I applied or worked, probably at my current job too.)
- saryant 13y agoSalary data on public employees is public data in most (all?) states. For example, the salaries of all of Texas' 674,000 employees: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee-salaries/ http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
- acrooks 13y agoComing from Canada, I find it amazing that 30% of the top 25 salaries are related to athletics. Really goes to show how important sports are in the US.
- deeths 13y agoIt has more to do with the amount top athletic programs bring into big athletic schools. If the school is making millions on tickets and TV rights on their top-rated football team, they're willing to pay a lot for a coach that helps them keep winning.
- dagw 13y agoIn Norway and Sweden this data is available for all people, not just public employees. The US is a bastion of sensibility in comparison.
- w_t_payne 13y agoI can see the attraction. Actually, I think it is a good idea. We should do it in the UK too ... although people are traditionally a bit weird about money here, so I can't see it happening.