A California park district general manager earned over $300,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to data released Tuesday by the state controller.

Joseph Donofrio, former general manager of the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, was paid $306,474 in 2009 along with $16,500 in deferred compensation. Donofrio retired last year and now receives a pension from the district.

His compensation was published Tuesday along with those of thousands of other special district employees as a part of an ambitious database project led by state Controller John Chiang.

The database, which was launched in response to the salary scandal in the city of Bell, now includes figures from all of California’s cities and counties and over 1,500 special districts.

Chiang said in a recent interview that he viewed the website as a way to create more dialogue about public sector compensation.

“The question for all of us is how do we make government more interactive?” he said. “I think that will be a game-changer.”