Alameda County Transportation Commission Data Collection Success!
Transparent California’s mission is to get data covering every public employee in our state – millions of them from…
Honesty in Public Employee Compensation Analysis
The Economic Policy Institute recently released its annual study of public teacher compensation and, to almost no one’s surprise,…
A New Initiative to Transform California Open Records
Since its signing in 1968, California’s open records law has been the gold standard for government transparency. It has…
Los Angeles FD Payroll is Raging Out of Control
There is no doubt that firemen provide an essential service, and we owe it to our public servants to provide them with an appropriate wage, but is almost half a million dollars a year in overtime too much?
Don’t be Fooled by Teachers Unions’ Antics
Los Angeles Unified School District employees are again in an uproar and on strike. But it’s not poor academic…
How Much are California K-12 Employees Really Paid – Benefits
In this series we’ve done an in-depth dive into Transparent California’s pool of compensation records, with actual data on…
A New Way to Fight for California Transparency
The Sponsor a District Program, which is live right now on TransparentCalifornia.com, allows you to directly fund the collection of data from the districts that matter to you
It’s Sunshine Week in California!
From 2020 to 2021, the average total pay and benefits has risen from $120,892 to $126,688, an increase of 4.8%. From 2012 through 2021, the average growth rate has been 4.64%. During that time, according to the state’s Department of Industrial Relations, inflation has averaged 2.5%, meaning our public employees have been seeing their compensation rise almost twice as fast as inflation.
Transparent California Says Hello to Sunshine Week
Each year, Transparent California is proud to take part in a national celebration of government transparency known as Sunshine…
California Superintendent Salaries Continue to Rise
Transparent California’s own Todd Maddison was quoted in a recent article by the San Diego Union Tribune on the…