Public Sector Salaries
Aim
To build a comprehensive (geographic coverage, over time) database of salaries of public employees, along with relevant contextual information, for instance, average income of people living in the same area, people working in similar professions or jobs, etc.
Why?
A couple working as custodians for the city of Richmond, California in 2015 would have had a higher family income (before any benefits) than the median family income of the wealthiest county in California. This kind of a fact takes additional gravity given the dire financial straits Richmond, the second poorest among the hundred plus cities in the Bay Area, found itself in 2015---Moody downgraded Richmond's bond rating, costing the city millions of dollars.
About 75%--80% of Richmond's budget goes toward personnel costs. This figure itself is not unusual across cities. And highlights the importance of investigating public employee salaries if we want to understand problems with fiscal governance at the local level. Aside from the first order concerns, the fact that public employee unions fund council members' campaign to the tune of millions suggests other reasons to scrutinize public employee salaries.
In all, our aim is to investigate the extent to which compensation for different public employees is fair and rational.
Analyses
see the latest at: https://github.com/public-salaries/pub_sal_analyses
Data
| State | State | City | County | k12 | Higher Ed. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 2010 | ||||
| Alaska | 2009--2016 | ||||
| Arizona | UA 2011--2014 ASU 2008 |
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| Arkansas | 2017 | ||||
| California | 2009--2016 | 2009--2016 | 2009--2016 | 2009--2016 | 2009--2016 |
| Colorado | |||||
| Connecticut | 2010--2017 | 2010--2017 | |||
| Delaware | 2007--2013 | ||||
| District of Columbia | 2016--2017 | ||||
| Florida | 1995--2014 | 1997--2011 | 1997--2014 | 1997--2014 | 2014 |
| Georgia | 2010--2016 | ||||
| Hawaii | 2016 | ||||
| Idaho | 2008, 2013--2014, 2017--2018 | ||||
| Illinois | 2009--2012 | ||||
| Indiana | |||||
| Iowa | 2006--2016 | ||||
| Kansas | 2009--2016 | 2009--2016 | 2010--2016 | 2008--2017 | |
| Kentucky | |||||
| Maine | 2008 | ||||
| Louisiana | 2009--2013 | 2009--2012 | 2009--2013 | ||
| Maine | 2008 | ||||
| Maryland | 2012--2017 | ||||
| Massachusetts | 2010--2017 | ||||
| Michigan | 2014--2016 | 2014--2016 | 2014--2016 | ||
| Minnesota | 2011--2016 | ||||
| Mississippi | |||||
| Missouri | 2007--2017 | ||||
| Montana | 2017 | 2011--2017 | |||
| Nebraska | |||||
| Nevada | 2007--2016 | 2007--2016 with some holes | 2007--2016 with some holes | 2010--2016 with some holes | 2009--2016 |
| New Hampshire | 2012--2016 | ||||
| New Jersey | 2010--2017 | ||||
| New Mexico | 2013--2018 | ||||
| New York | |||||
| North Carolina | 2017 | 2017 | |||
| North Dakota | |||||
| Ohio | 2010--2016 | 2006--2016 | |||
| Oklahoma | 2010--2016 | 2010--2016 | |||
| Oregon | 2016--2017 | ||||
| Pennsylvania | 2015--2017 | ||||
| Rhode Island | 2011--2017 | ||||
| South Carolina | 2017 | ||||
| South Dakota | |||||
| Tennessee | |||||
| Texas | |||||
| Utah | 2009--2018 | ||||
| Vermont | 2017 | ||||
| Virginia | 2016--2017 | 2016--2017 | |||
| Washington | 2012--2016 | 2011--2015 | |||
| West Virginia | 2006 | 2015 | |||
| Wisconsin | 2012--2014 | ||||
| Wyoming |
Besides this:
- Data on Highered institutions from Collegiate Times
- Census Income Data
Authors
Gaurav Sood and Chris Muir
Contribute to the project
If you see an inconsistency in the data, or have a suggestion, or some data that you would like to contribute to the project, please create a pull request or open an issue.
License
Analyses Released under CC BY 2.0. Data is released under the MIT License.