In January’s State of the City Speech, Mayor Byron Brown said that he intended to post online a complete list of city employees, by name, title, and salary. He hasn’t done that yet, so we thought we’d help. Here it is. It’s a bit out of date—if I recall correctly, this is from 2007.

Brown’s promise to post this list (presumably an up-to-date version) seemed like a rather lame nod toward transparency anyway. Thanks, but I’d rather have a complete record of all bids and contracts for government work.

In any case, the Brown administration was not so committed to transparency a year and a half ago. We had to invoke Freedom of Information Law to get it, and even then we were made to wait.

It’s not really interesting reading in itself—I mean, who cares how much your neighbor the plow driver makes? But combine the list with campaign finance reports, and suddenly it’s big fun. That’s why we requested the list in the first place, and it continues to be helpful