Data compiled by Agnel Philip, Pamela Ren Larson, Justin Price, Rob O'Dell and Michael Squires

What if there's an error?

AZ Data Central obtained data for the most recent budget year from the agencies via public records requests, then standardized the figures.

If your information appears in the data and you believe there’s an error, first contact your employer’s HR department and then notify our staff by filling out this form.

This database is part of AZ Data Central powered by The Arizona Republic, public data to help you make better decisions about how you live.

What does the database show?

The table provides hourly and annual wages, overtime pay, job title, department, full- or part-time status and dates of hire for each person employed during the most recent completed budget year — often the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2018. Most of the information was provided by the entities, although The Republic calculated some figures that weren’t provided.

Where did the data come from?

Arizona doesn’t have a single database of public-employee salaries, so Republic reporters filed nearly two dozen records requests to individual agencies to assemble this dataset. The Republic asked for detailed salary information for each employee, but the records that were provided were often inconsistent. For example, some entities provided employees' current salary rates while others provided what employees were paid during the most-recent fiscal year.

For the most part, The Republic used the information provided by the entities. But some fields, such as annual pay, hourly rate and full- or part-time status, had to be drawn from other sources or calculated.

For example, when an annual rate wasn’t reliably provided for full-time employees, The Republic either used total base pay – total wages paid to an employee in a fiscal year – or calculated a rate based on the employee’s full-time equivalent ratio and the standard work hours in the year (2,080). Hourly rates were calculated from annual rates using the standard work hours in a year and the employee’s full-time equivalent ratio. Entries that couldn’t be reliably calculated were left blank. For employees of Pima Community College who received "supplemental adjunct pay," that amount was added to their regular pay.

Why is The Republic publishing salary data?

Public employee salaries are one of the most significant expenses any government incurs. The data is available under Arizona public records law to ensure the public knows how government bodies spend tax dollars.

The database also provides a wealth of information that can be useful to the employees themselves. For example, the data can show which employees are paid the most overtime or expose pay disparities.

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