Privacy

What we publish about public employees

PublicPayData republishes pay records that US state and local governments make public themselves. For each person we show only:

• name,
• job title, employer and department,
• pay for each year (regular pay, overtime and other pay, where the government publishes them).

We never publish home addresses, dates of birth, personal phone numbers or email addresses, photos, or anything we’ve inferred about a person. If a government source includes other personal details, we remove them before storing anything. Where a government has withheld a name, we keep it withheld.

You can ask us to remove a name: see Corrections & removals. Removals are applied every time the data is refreshed.

What we collect about visitors

• No accounts. You don’t need to sign up, and we don’t ask for personal information.
• Searches stay in your browser. Looking up a name or job happens on your device, and we don’t store what you search for. The search results page has your search words in its address, so that address is counted like any other page view (see analytics below).
• Basic page-view analytics. We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to count page views and see which pages are useful. It sets cookies and records the pages you visit, roughly where you are (country or region), your browser and device type, and the site that sent you here. We don’t use it to identify you, and we don’t send it your name or email.
• Google’s privacy policy applies to that data. Google collects and processes it under the Google Privacy Policy; see also how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can opt out with Google’s Analytics opt-out add-on or by blocking cookies.
• Advertising. We may show ads in future to cover running costs. If we do, ad providers may use cookies; we’ll update this page and offer the choices your region requires before ads appear.
• Email. If you email us, we use your message and address only to reply and to act on your request.

Your choices

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Changes

We’ll update this page if anything changes and note the date at the top.