This databases contains names, positions and salaries of state government employees making $50,000 or more a year in base salary, as furnished by the agencies in response to S.C. Freedom of Information Act requests made by The State newspaper.
Generally, salaries of employees earning less than $50,000 a year are available in $4,000 ranges directly from the agency of interest.
Why do we publish this data? A majority of agencies, commissions and other entities contained in this database pay employees through state or local appropriations. Some receive no tax money and operate by generating their own revenue. They are included here because they were established to serve the public interest, were started with public money, and their payrolls are part of the public record.
Search tips: To search by name, type in all or part of a name. (Example: "presley" or "pres" or "elvis".) You can also limit your search by agency using the dropdown menu. On the results page, you can sort the data how you wish by clicking on the blue column headings. Clicking the same heading again switches the sort between ascending and descending on that field.
Note that results are returned in 25-record increments but all records matching your search terms will be available. To reduce the number of results pages, keep your search parameters specific (for example, limit results to certain agencies or, for large agencies, to both agency and salary ranges). The number of records returned is displayed at the bottom of the results list.
Note the "updated" column in results to determine how new the data is.
How old is the data and where does it come from? The State obtains the data through S.C. Freedom of Information Act requests. The S.C. Budget and Control Board supplies about 81 percent of the nearly 20,000 records in the database. The date we received the data is reflected in the search results.
FOIA requests are sent separately to the following agencies:
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW COURT
COMMISSION ON PROSECUTION COORDINATION
EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
HOUSE STAFF
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COUNCIL
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
LEG. PRINTING, INFO. AND TECH. SERVICES
LOTTERY COMMISSION
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
OFFICE OF REGULATORY STAFF
SANTEE COOPER
SENATE STAFF
SC JOBS - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
SC RESEARCH AUTHORITY
STATE PORTS AUTHORITY
