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Sunday, August 20, 2006
Ind. Gov't. - State and university salaries
"Who's making what?" is the title to an extensive Indianapolis Star special report today on Indiana state government and university salaries. This report includes a link to a complete list of state employees and what they are paid.
The database is quite useful. For instance, if you type in "IDEM" you get a list of all IDEM employees, 40 names to a page, 25 pages in total, that may be sorted by name, salary, etc.
The "More about the database" link explains:
As part of the analysis, The Star compiled a database of annual salaries for state legislators and elected officials, and employees of all state government agencies and five public universities - Ball State, Indiana, Indiana State and Purdue universities, and the University of Southern Indiana. The database of 69,000 records includes workers' names, the state agency or university at which they work, their titles or positions, years' experience (if given), and their most current annual salaries.If you sort "IDEM" by department it turns out there are some other names (about 35) in the mix, epidemiologists from the State Department of Health, for instance. A reader points out that is because of the "idem" in epidemiologist.Search the database by typing in a specific first or last name, agency or university name, or job title, or a specific number for years' experience and salary. To sort the entire database, click on any of the highlighted field names, or search for a specific group of employees and click on the field names to sort that group.
A review of the Office of the Attorney General proves interesting. First, you have to know to use the code "ATG" to access the list. The result is 9 screens of 40 names. The highest paid person by far in the AG's office is the office manager -- paid $136,500, far higher than the next higest salary -- $91,400.
Steven Carter, the Attorney General, is listed at $79,400. His salary is set by statute. He is the 11th highest paid in the office.
An interesting name that turns up on the list is Gordon Durnil, who apparently has been there since 2001 as "Governor's Summer Interns - Summer Intern," earning $67,996.
To look up court salaries, it appears that you need to enter "ISC - Supreme Court", "ISC - JTAP", "ISC - Supreme Court Disciplinary", "ISC - Judges & Lawyers Assistance", and "ISC - Pro Se", depending on what you are seeking. In order to access the appellate court, you need to use "IAC - Appellate".
Salaries of the Legislative Services Agency do not appear to be included in the database. Neither do the salaries of House and Senate staff. All of these salaries are paid, of course, by the taxpayers.
Typing in "State Senator" will yield a list of the state senators; "state representative" will do the same for the House, but you will also need to sort the house result by department.
University salaries are also included, including both high officials, and instructors whose names I recognize here in Indianapolis. One wonders then why Senator Robert Garton's and Rep. Patrick Bauer's names only appear with their General Assembly salaries, when they are also high up on the staff of Ivy Tech. (The answer may be - Ivy Tech is not one of the five universities included in the database.)
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 20, 2006 07:07 AM
Posted to Indiana Government