Salaries of all City employees now posted on the internet

Anyone who is interested in what salary that any of the employees at the various local governmental agencies are being paid can now find out the information at the click of a mouse. The Independent News ( http://www.inweekly.net ) has posted a salary data base that has search capabilities that enables you to search for an individual by name, by job title of by the entire agency. If you want to know what every employee of the Sheriffs Department (Escambia) or the City of Pensacola which includes the Police Department is being paid all you have to do is enter a search for the entire Sheriff’s Department and the entire payroll beginning with the highest paid in descending order to the lowest paid is opened up. If you want to see what all the Lieutenants are paid, just enter a search for Lieutenants at the Sheriff’s Department and that information will open up. It is very user friendly data base. The data base includes salaries paid to those at the BOCC, City of Pensacola, Clerk of Court, Elections, Property Appraiser, Sheriffs Department,
(Escambia only), SRCO (does not include Santa Rosa Sheriffs Dept.), and the Tax Collector. If you made a request for this same information at the Sheriffs Department, you’d get stonewalled and if they did furnish it would charge you an exorbitant amount. The data base link is on the front page of the Independents web site titled “WHO MAKES $ WHAT, County and City Data Base” Kudos to the Independent for publishing the information that the tax paying public have a right to know. We can now see where most of our tax dollars are being spent and who is benefiting from those dollars.

I checked this out and the information is incorrect. I shows my salary $5k more than it should be. I wonder where they got this information?

You should call Outzen at the Independent and ask him. I'm sure he got the figures from City Hall.

You should call Outzen at the Independent and ask him. I'm sure he got the figures from City Hall.

Mine was correct. The salaries that are posted is your gross salary not your net ( what you take home) after all your deductions. Those are a part of your salary.

THE FIGURE THAT IS SHOWN INCLUDES YOUR SPECIAL DUTY, FTO AND ANY OTHER EXTRA THAT YOU ARE TAXED ON.

What your base salary is and what you actually take home after overtime, extra duty, and shift differential are two different numbers. Outzen never clarified this in his article. Some of the overtime reflected on total pay is "voluntold". The article stated salaries. Never said anything about total pay after extra hours.

If he reported all your salaries paid, what's the big deal. If you are paid the money is comes from taxpayers so all that you are paid should be reported and available for the taxpayers to see. If you dont want a high salary reported, dont work so many special detals and give up any special assignments that increases your gross.

Wow, was that a member of PPD making that last post? Whhoooaa, way to knock a brother down. I think the point being made is that the article should have explained the incomes being presented included extra duty and overtime. It misled people into thinking they were showing the base salaries of officers.