Public payroll records, examined
Follow government compensation from source file to salary record.
Search public pay by name, agency, or job title, then inspect the record trail behind the headline number.
- governments
- 60
- published payroll ledgers
- states
- 18
- statewide and authority data
- local
- 41
- cities and counties
Source trail
Pages identify the public dataset and ingest date whenever a source has published records.
Identity caution
Ambiguous name matches are labeled as multi-record containers instead of being merged into a person.
Payroll context
Department medians, pay bands, and component splits show whether a number reflects base pay, overtime, benefits, or one-off compensation.
Browse the record set
Start with a government
Each jurisdiction opens into departments, titles, source notes, and the highest-compensated records available for the latest published year.
States
18- New York Public AuthoritiesState
New York State Public Authorities — Payroll (NYS Open Data)
- FloridaState
Florida — State Employee Salaries (People First / Florida Has a Right to Know)
- MassachusettsState
Massachusetts Comptroller — CTHRU Statewide Payroll
- ConnecticutState
Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller — Open Payroll
- New JerseyState
New Jersey — YourMoney State Payroll
- MissouriState
Missouri Accountability Portal — State Employee Pay
- IllinoisState
Illinois — State Employee Pay
- Rhode IslandState
Rhode Island — State Employee Payroll
- VermontState
State of Vermont — Employee Salaries
- South CarolinaState
South Carolina — State Employee Salaries
- UtahState
Transparent Utah — State Government Payroll
- TexasState
Texas — State Employee Salaries (Texas Tribune)
- MaineState
Maine — State Employee Wages & Benefits
- MinnesotaState
Minnesota — State Employee Payroll
- TennesseeState
Tennessee — State Employee Salaries
- ArkansasState
Arkansas — State Employee Compensation
- GeorgiaState
Georgia — State Employee Salaries (Open Georgia / TIGA)
- CaliforniaState
California — State Employee Compensation (SCO Payroll Data Warehouse, CPRA)
Cities and counties
41- City of Los AngelesLocal
City of Los Angeles Controller — City Employee Payroll
- City and County of San FranciscoLocal
City and County of San Francisco — Employee Compensation
- City of Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge ParishLocal
Open Data BR — City-Parish Employee Salaries
- District of ColumbiaLocal
District of Columbia — Public Employee Salary
- New York CityLocal
New York City — Citywide Payroll
- Louisville Metro, KentuckyLocal
Louisville Metro — Employee Salaries
- City of Phoenix, ArizonaLocal
City of Phoenix — Employee Compensation
- Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaLocal
Allegheny County — Employee Salaries
- City of PhiladelphiaLocal
City of Philadelphia — Employee Earnings
- City of BostonLocal
City of Boston — Employee Earnings Report
- City of MiamiLocal
City of Miami — Employee Salaries
- City of Las VegasLocal
City of Las Vegas — Employee Compensation
- City of MilwaukeeLocal
City of Milwaukee — Employee Salaries
- City of BaltimoreLocal
City of Baltimore — Employee Salaries
- City of San JoseLocal
City of San Jose — Employee Compensation
- Metro NashvilleLocal
Metro Nashville — Employee Compensation
- City of AlbuquerqueLocal
City of Albuquerque — Employee Earnings
- City of ChicagoLocal
City of Chicago — Employee Salaries
- City of SeattleLocal
City of Seattle — Wage Data
- City of CharlotteLocal
City of Charlotte — Employee Pay
- City of MemphisLocal
City of Memphis — Employee Compensation
- City of CincinnatiLocal
City of Cincinnati — Employee Salaries
- City of PittsburghLocal
City of Pittsburgh — Employee Salaries (2017–2019)
- City of GreensboroLocal
City of Greensboro — Employee Pay
- City of BuffaloLocal
City of Buffalo — Open Payroll
- Johnson County, KansasLocal
Johnson County, Kansas — Employee Pay
- Ramsey County, MinnesotaLocal
Ramsey County, Minnesota — Employee Compensation
- Los Angeles CountyLocal
Los Angeles County — Employee Salaries (Auditor-Controller)
- Cook County, IllinoisLocal
Cook County, Illinois — Employee Payroll
- City of WorcesterLocal
City of Worcester — Employee Earnings
- City of Springfield, MALocal
City of Springfield, MA — Open Checkbook (HR)
- City of RockfordLocal
City of Rockford, IL — Employee Compensation
- Seattle Public SchoolsLocal
Seattle Public Schools — Staff (WA OSPI S-275)
- Davis School District, UtahLocal
Davis School District — Compensation (Transparent Utah)
- Alpine School District, UtahLocal
Alpine School District — Compensation (Transparent Utah)
- City of Salt Lake CityLocal
Salt Lake City Corporation — Compensation (Transparent Utah)
- Chicago Public SchoolsLocal
Chicago Public Schools — Employee Position Roster
- School District of PhiladelphiaLocal
School District of Philadelphia — Employee Information
- Miami-Dade CountyLocal
Miami-Dade County — Employee Pay
- Suffolk County, New YorkLocal
Suffolk County, New York — Salaries by Department
- Franklin County, OhioLocal
Franklin County, Ohio — Employee Payroll
Why the presentation is cautious
Public payroll data is a record of government spending, not a biography. GovComp.app keeps source provenance close to every page and flags records when the underlying data cannot prove two rows belong to one distinct person.
Editorial standard
Show the number, show the source, show the uncertainty.