154,000 SALARIES: SEE THEM HERE
When we launched AZ Data Central, the idea was to bring you more useful information for how you live.
Now we’re launching one of our biggest data sets yet: salary information for more than 154,000 public employees, including:
❚ Arizona state employees.
❚ Arizona State University, University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University salaries.
❚ Maricopa County and other counties.
❚ Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale, Tempe, Chandler and other cities.
We’re doing it because personnel costs are the biggest expenditures for taxpayer-funded agencies. As salary expenses increase, that’s less of your tax money left over for the services you need.
And if you’re a public employee, you deserve to know whether your employer is treating you and your colleagues fairly. You’ve told us you want to know how your tax dollars are spent. Now you will.
These salaries are public record. But that doesn’t mean this information is always easy to find. Our data team spent months submitting public records requests, compiling the results and verifying the information, which more than 20 public agencies record in myriad and sometimes messy ways.
This compilation of salaries is the largest and most complete one ever made publicly available in Arizona.
Are your co-workers paid fairly? Is your payroll information different from what’s showing up on your paycheck? Are there problems inside the public agency where you work? If so, send us a tip.
Start exploring now at data.azcentral.com.