U.S. City Open Data Census
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Annual salary information including base pay and overtime pay for all active, permanent employees. Employee salary data show the public how individual staff positions are compensated, and help taxpayers hold city staff accountable for the work the are paid to do. Transparent publication of this dataset can also identify and disincentivize corrupt hiring or compensation in government.
Note that some cities may list only directors and high-level employee salaries. This will not fulfill the requirement for Employee Salaries data for Census purposes.
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| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, RDF, TSV, XML | |
| findable | 4 | First page of Google results for "city of los angeles employee salaries" |
| findable_steps | Searched "city of los angeles employee salaries" on Google | |
| licence_url | https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Payroll/City-Employee | Listed as Public Domain in the metadata |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | The data can be viewed on the open data portal and are also clean and easy to use when exported. |
| collector_name | Los Angeles City Controller | |
| characteristics | Department, Position title, Base salary or wages, Overtime | |
| location | href="https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Payroll/City-Employee-Payroll/pazn-qyym" https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Payroll/City-Employee">rel="nofollow">https://controllerdata.lacity.org/Payroll/City-Employee - Los Angeles City Controller Open Data Portal |
