{"id":657,"date":"2009-01-25T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2021-08-17T21:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:06:03","slug":"follow-the-money-searchable-payroll-database-of-city-employees-posted-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/follow-the-money-searchable-payroll-database-of-city-employees-posted-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the money: Searchable payroll database of city employees posted online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100428183138\/http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/data_central\/San_Antonio_city_salaries.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/salaries11.jpg\" alt=\"salaries1\" title=\"salaries1\" width=\"514\" height=\"196\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/salaries11.jpg 514w, https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/salaries11-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter Greg Jefferson wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\">a story in today&#8217;s paper<\/a> that examined how taxpayer money is being spent on salaries and overtime for San Antonio&#8217;s 10,000 city employees. The story looks at the city&#8217;s highest-paid employees, and explains why $13 million in overtime went to the Fire Department and many of its dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>This information was gleaned from a payroll database at City Hall. Express-News Database Editor Kelly Guckian filed an open-records request, obtained the data from the city and analyzed it. And you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\">analyze the data<\/a> yourself. Mike Howell, managing editor of the Express-News Web site, set up a user interface for our online readers. You can look up employees by name. Or simply hit &#8220;search&#8221; and the results will automatically show you the highest-paid employees.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nRelated: <a href=\"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/telling-stories-with-data-police-chases-and-drug-smugglers-on-the-texas-mexico-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telling stories with data: Police chases and drug smugglers on the Texas-Mexico border<\/a><\/strong><em><\/p>\n<p>The salaries range from $275,000 (City Manager Sheryl Sculley, who recently received a much-publicized raise, to $18,200 (an employee in the city&#8217;s Human Resources Department).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-663\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sculleyweb1.jpg\" alt=\"City Manager Sheryl Sculley\" title=\"sculleyweb\" width=\"155\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-663\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Manager Sheryl Sculley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Other media organizations, believing the public has a right to know how tax money is spent, are publishing payroll data of government agencies. The nonprofit group Texas Watchdog recently posted data of state employees earning more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Readers have had mixed reactions. Not everyone believes the names and salaries of government employees should be made public, as some of the comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100627060112\/http:\/\/blogs.chron.com:80\/houstonpolitics\/2008\/07\/local_government_payroll_searc_1.html\">this blog post<\/a> by the Houston Chronicle show. One reader wrote: &#8220;I wholeheartedly agree that this is public information, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it has to be broadcast without context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think the key question is whether the database helps readers learn something about the way their government works.<\/p>\n<p>Examining how tax money is spent is a legitimate news story. And if that&#8217;s the case, why shouldn&#8217;t readers be able to look at the data themselves and crunch the numbers? In the Internet age, shouldn&#8217;t newspapers make this information publicly available to everyone, instead of keeping it to themselves?<\/p>\n<p>A ranking of the highest-paid officials might show us the priorities &#8212; and possible excesses &#8212; of a government agency. And in a city where police and firefighters constantly complain about being understaffed, it&#8217;s revealing to see a few public-safety employees earning nearly $80,000 in overtime in 2007. Are those dispatchers overworked?<\/p>\n<p>If publishing this data gives readers a tool to ask those kinds of meaningful questions, that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Greg Jefferson wrote a story in today&#8217;s paper that examined how taxpayer money is being spent on salaries and overtime for San Antonio&#8217;s 10,000 city employees. 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