Buckeye Institute Releases State Employee Salary Database

posted February 2, 2009

COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute's Center for Transparent and Accountable Government today released an online database of State of Ohio employee salaries. The database comes on the heels of Governor Ted Strickland's proposed two-year state budget, also released today. The governor focuses, in part, on reducing state employee salaries in his proposed budget.

The database is available online here.

"Governor Strickland should be applauded for proposing a cut in state employee pay," Buckeye Institute David Hansen said. "However, Ohio will still have an estimated 60,480 employees on payroll in FY 2010 at a total cost exceeding $4.5 billion. Our salary database should complement the governor's overall effort, and bring additional attention to state employee compensation."

"It is important Ohio taxpayers have access to public employee salary information,"transparency center director Mike Maurer said. "However, members of the public and groups like the Buckeye Institute should not have to compile this information. This type of basic transparency should be a responsibility of state government."

The state employee salary database can be sorted by the highest paid employee or searched by individual employee.

Previously, the Institute released a database of Ohio State University's highest paid employees. That information is available at http://buckeyeinstitute.org/article/1296.

The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions is a nonpartisan research and educational institute devoted to individual liberty, economic freedom, personal responsibility and limited government in Ohio.