Government Compensation in California Website Tutorial - Introduction

Welcome to this Government Compensation in California website tutorial offered by the State Controller’s Office. Topic: Introduction to this site. Understanding how much money California public employees earn just got a whole lot easier. The California State Controller’s Office is proud to introduce new tools that allow the public to study and better interpret compensation data for more than 1.5 million positions, including many employees of the state, counties, cities, higher education and special districts. The tools may be accessed at publicpay.ca.gov. You’re invited to browse salaries in your community. Find your county to see a snapshot of average wages. Let’s look at Alameda County. You can also locate data for a city with just a few clicks. Let’s look at the highest-paid position in Hayward. You’ll land on a page that offers an overview of how much is spent overall on city worker salaries. Scroll down again find the list of positions. Looking for something special? Let’s find the salary of the mayor of San Diego. Type in a search term for focused results. Here are the search results for mayor of San Diego. The site offers a quick glimpse at the highest-paid positions. Here are the 10 highest-paid results. You can also create your own report, slicing and dicing data any way you like. Researchers are invited to download all data for further analysis. We’ll be updating salary data each year, so be sure to bookmark the site. You can also sign up for email alerts we’ll send out whenever we publish a fresh round of numbers. The State Controller’s Office is committed to transparency, and we hope this evolving database will help provide a better understanding of state and local governments. Thank you for watching.