State Controller Betty T. Yee announced that her public employee compensation Web site has been updated to include salaries of special district workers in 2013.
“Special districts in a sense are the most local form of government,” Controller Yee said, “so our new data should be of interest to communities that want to track the use of taxpayer dollars close to home.”
The Web site now includes five full years of data for special districts and for other local governments, including 58 counties and more than 450 cities.
Special districts are local agencies formed for a specific service, such as health care, public transit, recreation, irrigation, fire protection or cemetery maintenance.
The new data, which is unaudited, includes the salaries of 132,854 positions in 2,900 special districts, adding up to $6.43 billion in wages in 2013.
For this update, 98.6 percent of special districts submitted data on time.
Forty-one districts did not file on time. The list of districts failing to file is at http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_noncompliant_special_districts.html#districts2013 .
Five districts provided incomplete records. Those noncompliant districts are Adelanto Public Utility Authority, Alameda County Medical Center, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Nevada-Sierra In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority and Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District.
Overall, the public employee compensation Web site – www.publicpay.ca.gov – now contains information on more than two million positions with $369 billion in wages and almost $100 billion in total benefits paid from 2009 through 2013.
In addition to local governments, the database includes salaries for most state employees, nearly 100 higher education providers, more than 600 school districts and other K-12 entities, 58 superior courts, 51 First Five commissions, and 35 fairs and expositions.
The site offers maps, search functions and custom report-building tools. It allows users to download raw data for their own research.
Since its launch in 2010, the Web site has registered more than 8.2 million page views.