By: Elaine Casey
August 9th, 2007
The Reno Gazette-Journal has requested a salary database for full-time administrative and academic faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, following similar requests by Gannett-owned newspapers to other public universities across the country.
A number of other Gannett papers, including the Arizona Republic, the Des Moines Register and the Louisville Courier-Journal, have instituted online, searchable databases of the salaries of state university faculty and staff, along with other government employees and state workers.
These databases are part of a movement in the news media to provide more government accountability to citizens through the ability to find out how much their governor is paid, or to see how much every state government employee makes.
The University’s information was requested under open-records law, Nevada Revised Statutes 239.010. Compensation is also delineated as public information in the Board of Regents Handbook. The database was sent to the Reno Gazette-Journal Aug. 1. The actual date of publication, either in print or online, is unknown.
The database includes each employee’s name and base salary as of the July 1, 2007 contract date. Additional income from grants, contracts, overload or other sources is not included. Only publicly releasable information is included in the database. All other employee data is safeguarded.
The Gazette-Journal has also requested this information from other Nevada System of Higher Education institutions, including UNLV, Truckee Meadows Community College and Western Nevada Community College. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is owned by Stephens Media, also made a similar request to the University.
Similar salary databases have been posted online in the past, such as one published by University journalism students in 2003. UNLV’s Human Resources department has made its salary database public on unlv.edu.
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August 9th, 2007
The Reno Gazette-Journal has requested a salary database for full-time administrative and academic faculty of the University of Nevada, Reno, following similar requests by Gannett-owned newspapers to other public universities across the country.
A number of other Gannett papers, including the Arizona Republic, the Des Moines Register and the Louisville Courier-Journal, have instituted online, searchable databases of the salaries of state university faculty and staff, along with other government employees and state workers.
These databases are part of a movement in the news media to provide more government accountability to citizens through the ability to find out how much their governor is paid, or to see how much every state government employee makes.
The University’s information was requested under open-records law, Nevada Revised Statutes 239.010. Compensation is also delineated as public information in the Board of Regents Handbook. The database was sent to the Reno Gazette-Journal Aug. 1. The actual date of publication, either in print or online, is unknown.
The database includes each employee’s name, employee number and base salary as of the July 1, 2007 contract date. Additional income from grants, contracts, overload or other sources is not included. Only publicly releasable information is included in the database. All other employee data is safeguarded.
The Gazette-Journal has also requested this information from other Nevada System of Higher Education institutions, including UNLV, Truckee Meadows Community College and Western Nevada Community College. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is owned by Stephens Media, also made a similar request to the University.
Similar salary databases have been posted online in the past, such as one published by University journalism students in 2003. UNLV’s Human Resources department has made its salary database public on unlv.edu.
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