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Government worker salaries are not usual directly associated with the names of the people receiving them; the classifications are public, but you can't just typ
by cookiecaper 11y ago
Government worker salaries are not usual directly associated with the names of the people receiving them; the classifications are public, but you can't just type in "my neighbor salary" in Google and see what they make; you don't know what classification most government workers hold. Elected officials are the common exception to this, since we know senators make $x and we know all 100 people that are currently senators, we can look up the salary for the mayor and associate it with the mayor of the city, etc. Even then the published salaries should be seen as a baseline, since many public personas have multiple streams of income.
- ktsmith 11y agoWho needs google: http://www.transparentnevada.com/salaries/search/ http://www.transparentnevada.com/salaries/search/ There has been plenty of pressure applied to state government to provide this information under freedom of information laws. When a local paper initially collected this information and made it available there was public backlash against both the paper, and the way certain people were compensated (mostly firefighters, police officers but also some school teachers and university employees). After a while most people forgot about it but the push continued and now we have things like the above linked site where you can find the total compensation of every employee of the state of Nevada.
- thecage411 11y agoIn California they are public and searchable by name, see http://transparentcalifornia.com/ http://transparentcalifornia.com/.