The Buckeye Institute’s Trailblazing Ohio Government Salary Database Updated Through 2019
Dec 11, 2020Columbus, OH – On Friday, The Buckeye Institute announced that its trailblazing public salary database was updated with information on government salaries through 2019. The database includes salary information for public employees in Ohio’s K-12 public schools, state employees, Ohio’s public universities, and local governments in Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown.
With more than 17 million visits to its government salary database, Buckeye is a pioneer in increasing government transparency. Its work to make public information easily accessible was instrumental in the initial creation of OhioCheckBook.com.
Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague praised Buckeye’s work, saying, “Government transparency for taxpayers is something all of Ohio can agree on. That’s why we made it a priority to re-imagine and re-launch the Ohio Checkbook as a more robust and streamlined online platform. I applaud The Buckeye Institute for acting in that same spirit to not only make information available, but to ensure it’s also relevant and up-to-date.”
The Buckeye Institute provides citizens with an easy to search database of public salaries for:
- Ohio’s K-12 public schools, with salaries from 2007-2019;
- Ohio’s state employees, with salaries from 2010-2019;
- Ohio’s public universities, with salaries from 2011-2019; and
- Ohio’s most populous cities in the state’s eight most populous metropolitan areas, with salaries from 2011-2019, with the exception of Cincinnati, which—to-date—has not responded to public information requests for 2018 salary information.
“In 2010 The Buckeye Institute unveiled its groundbreaking online salary database which made it easy for taxpayers to see how government officials were spending their money,” said James B. Woodward, Ph.D., an economic research analyst for the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute. “Ten years later, The Buckeye Institute remains the recognized leader in Ohio committed to increasing government transparency, putting public information in the hands of citizens so they can hold their government accountable.”
The cities in the local salary database are part of Ohio’s most populous metropolitan areas as determined by the United States Census taken every 10 years. In 2010, the most populous cities in Ohio’s eight most populous metropolitan areas were Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown.
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