Yours Truly is Still Waiting

Byuclafaculty

The Contra Costa Times today is complaining that some public entities – but no UC- have not yet provided it with all of their salary data so it could publish them on its website. The article includes the following quote:

“It’s insane, absolutely asinine” that some governments continue to balk at making compensation data readily public, said Tom Newton, executive director of the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

Full article at http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_17916681

As yours truly has done with the Orange County Register and the Sacramento Bee, I have posted a modest request on the Contra Costa Times website:

While you’re waiting for public sector pay, please publish the salary of each employee of the Contra Costa Times. Thanks.

So yours truly is waiting, too, for my request to be fulfilled. I guess we’re all waiting now:

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