Transparency portal directory
U.S. state and territory transparency portals
56 jurisdictions: 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 5 U.S. territories. Each entry deep-links to the state-run portal — TruthMark does not aggregate, scrape, or rehost any of this data. Where a state publishes only aggregates or requires a public-records request, the entry says so explicitly. Why we do it this way →
States
50 entries · 5 with fuller integration
Alabama
Open portal ↗Alabama Department of Finance — Open Alabama
Alaska
Open portal ↗Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Finance
No employee-by-name salary lookup. Alaska publishes the statutory Compensation and Travel Report of Executive Positions and aggregate workforce reports only — individual non-executive salaries require a public-records request.
Arizona
Open portal ↗Arizona Department of Administration — General Accounting Office
Bot-protected (returns 403 to non-browser requests, works in real browsers). Salary data is presented as aggregated payroll-object expenditures rather than name-level lookup.
Arkansas
Open portal ↗Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration
CaliforniaFull integration available
Open portal ↗California State Controller's Office
Colorado
Open portal ↗Colorado Office of the State Controller / Department of Personnel & Administration
TOPS is a curated story on Colorado's Socrata data portal — surfaces revenue/expenditure rollups rather than name-level salary search.
Connecticut
Open portal ↗Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller
Delaware
Open portal ↗Delaware Department of Finance — Office of the State Treasurer
Open Checkbook publishes vendor and payroll expenditures; for employee compensation see the Total Compensation Calculator at statejobs.delaware.gov. No standalone name-search salary tool.
FloridaFull integration available
Open portal ↗Florida Department of Management Services
Georgia
Open portal ↗Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts
Hawaii
Open portal ↗Hawaii Department of Budget and Finance
OpenGov-hosted budget and expenditure data only — no statewide name-level salary lookup. Individual salaries require a UIPA public-records request.
Idaho
Open portal ↗Idaho State Controller's Office
Illinois
Open portal ↗Illinois Office of the Comptroller
Indiana
Open portal ↗Indiana State Comptroller — Indiana Transparency Portal
Iowa
Open portal ↗Iowa Department of Management — data.iowa.gov
Statutory Salary Book is also published in PDF by the Iowa Legislature; the Salary Book Explorer is the searchable executive-branch resource.
Kansas
Open portal ↗Kansas Department of Administration — KanView
Kentucky
Open portal ↗Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet
Louisiana
Open portal ↗Louisiana Division of Administration — Louisiana Checkbook
Salary database covers executive-branch agencies only; higher-education employees not yet included. LaTrac is a parallel expenditure portal.
Maine
Open portal ↗Maine Office of the State Controller
Maryland
Open portal ↗Office of the Maryland Comptroller
Maryland publishes statewide salary scales and PDF rosters, NOT a name-search portal. Individual records require a Public Information Act request.
Massachusetts
Open portal ↗Massachusetts Office of the Comptroller — CTHRU
Michigan
Open portal ↗Michigan State Budget Office — Open Michigan SIGMA Transparency
Open Michigan publishes vendor payments and expenditure rollups but no statewide individual-employee salary lookup. Name-level salary records require a Michigan FOIA request.
Minnesota
Open portal ↗Minnesota Management and Budget
Bot-protected with ShieldSquare interstitial; reachable in real browsers but may challenge automated requests.
Mississippi
Open portal ↗Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration — Mississippi Accountability and Transparency
Missouri
Open portal ↗Missouri Office of Administration — Missouri Accountability Portal
Montana
Open portal ↗Montana Department of Administration
Nebraska
Open portal ↗Nebraska Department of Administrative Services — State Personnel
Nebraska does not run a searchable statewide salary lookup. This NebraskAccess landing page lists official paths to salary records (Blue Book for elected officials, salary-survey reports, public-records requests).
Nevada
Open portal ↗Nevada Governor's Finance Office / State Controller
New Hampshire
Open portal ↗New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services
Bot-protected (403 to non-browser requests, works in real browsers). State Employee Pay Search at business.nh.gov/paytransparency is the underlying tool.
New Jersey
Open portal ↗New Jersey Department of the Treasury — YourMoney.NJ.gov
New Mexico
Open portal ↗New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration — Sunshine Portal
Employee salary data on the Sunshine Portal has not been refreshed past 2023 as of mid-2025; for current records consult the State Personnel Office or file an IPRA request.
New YorkFull integration available
Open portal ↗New York State Office of the State Comptroller
North Carolina
Open portal ↗North Carolina Office of the State Controller
OSC database covers executive-branch employees on the Integrated HR-Payroll System; UNC System, community colleges, and K-12 teachers are tracked on separate systems.
North Dakota
Open portal ↗North Dakota Office of Management and Budget
Ohio
Open portal ↗Ohio Treasurer of State — Ohio Checkbook
Oklahoma
Open portal ↗Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services — Oklahoma's Open Data
Oklahoma distributes the FY payroll as monthly CSVs on data.ok.gov rather than a searchable web tool.
Oregon
Open portal ↗Oregon Department of Administrative Services
Pennsylvania
Open portal ↗Pennsylvania Office of the Budget — PennWATCH
Rhode IslandFull integration available
Open portal ↗Rhode Island Department of Administration
South Carolina
Open portal ↗South Carolina Department of Administration
Publishes only state employees earning above $50,000 — lower-paid employees are not individually disclosed.
South Dakota
Open portal ↗South Dakota Bureau of Finance and Management — Open SD
Returns name, classification, and salary upon a structured query — not a free-text browse.
Tennessee
Open portal ↗Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration
TexasFull integration available
Open portal ↗Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Utah
Open portal ↗Utah Division of Finance — Transparent Utah
Vermont
Open portal ↗Vermont Department of Finance and Management — SPOTLIGHT
Publishes projected base compensation only; overtime, COLAs, bonuses, and earned-time payouts are not reflected in the base figure.
Virginia
Open portal ↗Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts — Commonwealth Data Point
Includes only salaried state employees earning more than $10,000 per year.
Washington
Open portal ↗Washington Office of Financial Management
West Virginia
Open portal ↗West Virginia State Auditor's Office — WV Checkbook
Hosted on the OpenGov platform under State Auditor authority; salary detail lives in the Total Compensation story.
Wisconsin
Open portal ↗Wisconsin Department of Administration — OpenBook Wisconsin
Excludes UW System, Legislative, and Judicial branches (separate HR systems); some law-enforcement and DPI special-program names are redacted by statute.
Wyoming
Open portal ↗Wyoming State Auditor's Office — WyOpen
WyOpen publishes vendor expenditures only and explicitly does NOT include state employee salary information. Individual salaries require a public-records request to the State Auditor's Payroll Division.
District of Columbia
1 entry
District of Columbia
Open portal ↗DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer — Open Data DC
DC publishes Public Employee Salary Information as a dataset on the Open Data Catalog rather than a dedicated lookup portal — search 'employee salary' on opendata.dc.gov.
U.S. Territories
5 entries
American Samoa
Open portal ↗American Samoa Government
No public employee-salary portal exists. ASG civil-service compensation is set by published pay schedule but no name-level lookup; file requests with the ASG Department of Human Resources.
Guam
Open portal ↗Guam Department of Administration — Classification & Pay
No central searchable salary portal; agency-specific staffing patterns publish position-level salary as PDFs.
Northern Mariana Islands
Open portal ↗CNMI Department of Finance
No public employee-salary portal exists. CNMI Department of Finance publishes financial reports and forms but no name-level salary database.
Puerto Rico
Open portal ↗Oficina del Gobernador — Portal de Transparencia Pública
Law 141-2019 portal is a public-records request system, not a searchable salary database. Individual salaries require a request.
U.S. Virgin Islands
Open portal ↗USVI Division of Personnel
Division of Personnel maintains a current-employee database; full salary disclosure is limited and may require a public-records request.
Data via state-run transparency portals (state controllers, comptrollers, and finance/administration agencies). NGO-curated databases are intentionally not used.
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