PublicPayData

What do public employees really get paid?

Official payroll records from US state and city governments, in plain numbers, with the source on every page.

To look up a person, open their employer's page and search by name.

States we cover

More states are added as we verify each official source.

Alabama: coming laterAlaska: coming laterColorado: coming laterDelaware: coming laterHawaii: coming laterIdaho: coming laterIndiana: coming laterMichigan: coming laterMississippi: coming laterMontana: coming laterNebraska: coming laterNew Mexico: coming laterNorth Dakota: coming laterOklahoma: coming laterSouth Carolina: coming laterSouth Dakota: coming laterTexas: coming laterVirginia: coming laterWest Virginia: coming laterWyoming: coming later
People covered:under 50,00050,000 to 250,000250,000 or morecoming later

From the data

Patterns across the large employers we cover (1,000 people or more), each one checked before it is shown.

Why you can trust these numbers

  • Official sources only

    Every figure comes from a government's own published payroll data, never from other salary websites.

  • Source on every page

    Each page names the agency that published the data, links to the original, and matches the agency's latest release.

  • Plain answers

    Typical pay, what most people earn, and how it changed, explained in everyday words, with no guesses filled in.

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