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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Ind. Gov't. - More on: State and university salaries
Last year the Indianapolis Star put out a database of state and university salaries. See this ILB entry from Aug. 20, 2006. While useful, that database had some major omissions that the ILB noted at the time, such as: "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." Further, not all state universities, such as Ivy Tech, were included.
The new September 2007 database, announced in today's Star, cures those omissions. So far, the ILB sees only one shortcoming, but it is a significant one. With the 2006 database (still available here) you could search by department code - i.e. you could pull up the individual departments of state government and see at a glance all the salaries in that department. With the 2007 database, the categories are built into the "employer" pull-down list, which has only the category "state government," plus the individual universities.
One option. Once you have retrieved a long list of names, such as by choosing "state government" and salary range", for instance, you may click the "employer" heading at the top of the resulting table to sort by department, within that salary range.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 23, 2007 06:45 AM
Posted to Indiana Government