Search 250,000+ California public-employee salary records by name, title, agency, or city. Pulls from the State Auditor's Office disclosures plus union contract pay scales for context.
California's public-employee salaries are public record by statute. The State Auditor's Office maintains Government Compensation in California (gov.compensation.ca.gov), which covers all state, UC, CSU, and most local government employees. This database pulls those records and adds context: which contract sets the salary, which step the employee is on, and how their total comp compares to peer agencies for the same job code.
The database is searchable by name (last/first), title (e.g. "RN", "Police Lieutenant", "Professor"), agency (UC Davis, City of Sacramento, LA County DHS), or city. Each row shows: base pay, overtime, "other" pay (bonuses, differentials), benefits cost (employer share of health + retirement contributions), total compensation, and a link to the source disclosure.
Practical uses: salary negotiation for the same job at a different agency (compare your offer to what other RNs in similar positions actually earn), retirement planning (model your CalPERS or UCRP final compensation from real numbers, not estimates), public-records research (verify what an elected official or executive actually makes), and union-side research during contract negotiations.
Step 1 — Pick your search method. Name (most specific), title + employer (most useful for "what does this job pay?"), or city (for comparing local government compensation across nearby jurisdictions).
Step 2 — Review the record. Each row breaks compensation into base, overtime, other (bonuses, callback, differentials), and benefits. Total comp is usually 25-40% higher than base for full-time public employees because of pension and health benefits contributions.
Step 3 — Compare to peer agencies. The database shows the same job code at multiple agencies side-by-side. UC Davis RN, UC San Francisco RN, Kaiser Sacramento RN — all RNs but very different total compensation due to contract differences.
Search by name, title, or employer. Each record shows base pay, overtime, other pay, benefits cost, total compensation, and the contract or pay scale it came from.
Open the database →Primary source: California State Auditor's Office, Government Compensation in California (publiccompensation.ca.gov), which is mandated by SB 1029 (2008) for all state, UC, CSU, and most local government employers to report annually. Secondary sources: union contract appendices (CNA-UC, SEIU-UPTE, AFSCME), federal Schedule H/990 filings for 501(c) hospitals, and Transparent California (a non-profit that aggregates state-level disclosures).
No — only public-sector compensation is disclosed by law in California. For private hospital RN salaries (Sutter, Stanford, Cedars-Sinai, Kaiser pre-management), the data is sourced from union contracts (CNA-Sutter, CNA-Kaiser) or anonymous surveys (Salary.com, Glassdoor). Those have wider error bars than the publicly-reported state data.
State Auditor disclosures are typically 12-18 months behind real-time — 2024 compensation is fully posted by early 2026. The database labels each record with the source year. Union contract pay scales are current (within months of the latest ratified contract), which is why we cross-reference both sources.
Yes — the State Auditor disclosure includes employer-paid health insurance and retirement contributions (UCRP employer rate, CalPERS employer rate). For a UC employee, base pay is about 75% of total comp; pension and health are the other 25%. This is the apples-to-apples comparison you want for job offers — a $90k offer with full UCRP is worth roughly $120k of total comp.