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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 Department of Finance — Open Alabama

  • 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 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 Department of Finance and Administration

  • CaliforniaFull integration available

    Open portal ↗

    California State Controller's Office

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  • 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 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

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  • Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts

  • 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 State Controller's Office

  • Illinois Office of the Comptroller

  • Indiana State Comptroller — Indiana Transparency 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 Department of Administration — KanView

  • Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet

  • 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 Office of the State Controller

  • 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 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 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 Office of Administration — Missouri Accountability Portal

  • Montana Department of Administration

  • 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 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

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  • 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 Treasurer of State — Ohio Checkbook

  • 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 Department of Administrative Services

  • Pennsylvania

    Open portal ↗

    Pennsylvania Office of the Budget — PennWATCH

  • Rhode IslandFull integration available

    Open portal ↗

    Rhode Island Department of Administration

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  • 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 Department of Finance and Administration

  • TexasFull integration available

    Open portal ↗

    Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

    Open TruthMark's integration card for Texas

  • Utah Division of Finance — Transparent Utah

  • 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 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 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 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 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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