How GovComp.app works

Public-sector salaries are public records. Federal, state, and local governments disclose employee compensation under public-records and transparency laws, and many publish it as official open-data payroll datasets. GovComp.app compiles those already-public records and links back to the original government source on every page.

Total compensation is the sum of the pay components a source reports — typically base salary, overtime, other pay (bonuses, allowances, lump-sum cash-outs), and the employer's cost of benefits. When a source breaks these out we show the breakdown; the total is their sum, not base salary alone, so it can run well above the headline salary when overtime or benefits are large.

Each jurisdiction shows the most recent payroll dataset its government has published — with the source name and publish date shown on the page. Official payroll disclosures lag real time, often by about a year, so figures reflect the last published period rather than this month's paycheck.

From official government payroll disclosures — one named, linked source per jurisdiction (the 'source' badge on each page). We don't scrape web pages or estimate figures; we normalize the published records into a common shape and preserve the original fields exactly as reported.

Conservatively. Where a source provides a stable identifier we use it; otherwise records are grouped by name, agency, and job title. When records are too ambiguous to attribute safely to one individual, we do NOT merge them — they're flagged as possibly representing more than one person rather than risk inventing a false identity or an inflated 'mega-earner'.

The figures and spellings come straight from the government's published file; we don't correct or editorialize them. If a value looks off, it usually reflects how that agency reported it (for example, a partial-year hire, a large one-time payout, or a data-entry quirk in the source). Every page links to the source so you can check the original.

No. GovComp.app is an independent transparency aggregator, not affiliated with any government. Each figure links to the official government source it came from — always treat that source as authoritative.

Yes. Use the removal request page and we'll take the record off GovComp.app. Note that the underlying data remains a public record at the government source, which we don't control.