- 1). Try contacting your state government directly. A great place to find contact information for your state is by going to the USA.gov site: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml. Here you can find contact information for the offices of your governor and legislature.
- 2). Go to http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/ and click on "Employee Directory" under the heading "Find Public Records by Type of Record." You'll find a list of all 50 states, and clicking on the name of the state you're interested in will lead you to a page that allows you to search for employees by county or statewide. Not all state pages include salary information.
- 3). The Asbury Park Press has a wonderful search engine available that allows you to search for government employees by name or by job title. Go to http://php.app.com/fed_employees/search.php and either enter a specific employee's name or, if you are just interested in learning the salary of a particular job, select the agency and job title from the drop-down menu. You can also limit your search by location.
- 4). The United States Office of Personnel Management's website is a little tricky to navigate, but if you go to the Salaries and Wages page at http://www.opm.gov/oca/08TABLES/, you can find information on the basic rates of pay of some government employees. The data is viewable either in an online table or a downloadable document.
- 5). To search for a specific state, enter the name of the state and the following terms, in quotes, into the search engine of your choice: "government employee salary." There are many private, independent sites (including newspapers) that gather information on government employees' earnings.
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