How did the Texas Tribune get salary information?
How did the Texas Tribune get salary information?
The Tribune obtained this data by requesting salary records from the state comptroller, as allowed by the Texas Public Information Act. We no longer publish salaries for other employees. Learn more about this change on our FAQ and About pages.
Where can I find the salaries of state employees in Texas?
Use The Texas Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer to review the compensation of hundreds of thousands of state and municipal employees in Texas, including those working for state agencies, counties and public universities. This data is obtained by requesting salary records from those public entities through the Texas Public Information Act.
How many salaries are in the govsalaries database?
GovSalaries provides a searchable nationwide salaries database of more than 50 million salaries records from over 60k sources. This data usually includes name, surname, monthly wage, annual wage and employer statistics. Employee salary and payroll records for 1,640 cities. Employee salary and payroll records for 2,406 county employers.
Is the salary of a federal employee public?
Federal employee salaries are public information under open government laws (5 U.S.C. § 552). FederalPay provides this data in the interest of government transparency — employee data may not be used for commercial soliciting or vending of any kind. Learn more about the FederalPay Employees Dataset here .
Do you include lower wage employees in Texas Tribune?
Lower-wage workers, however, are still counted in data analysis for each agency and position. We will always include individual pages for elected officials, including those who make less than the median. The explorer no longer includes salaries for university, public hospital or local government employees.
Is the Texas Tribune a nonpartisan news organization?
This database of compensation for Texas state employees is published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. We publish this information because we believe that disclosing how tax dollars are spent is in the public interest.