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Federal Workers' 2011 Salary Data Exposed Online
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Your paycheck information, or that of your neighbor's, is likely on a new database that went public Tuesday morning.
It opens the curtain on the personal payroll of over one million federal workers.
Click here for latest update on $439 Million in bonuses paid to federal workers.
By clicking here, you can access the DataUniverse.com 2011 payroll information too.
The data, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act placed with the Office of Personnel Management by a WUSA9/Gannett sister publication, The Asbury Park Press, allows you to enter a federal worker's name to obtain salary and bonus information.
DataUniverse.com estimates the databank covers about 70% of federal workers, but Department of Defense, White House, Congress, CIA, FBI, and some other agencies are excluded.
Before the system went online, 9NEWS Now's investigative reporter, Russ Ptacek, tested it by searching Veterans Affairs Secretary, Eric Shinseki.
In a split second, the database returned his $199,700 earnings in 2011.
You can also search by agency.
Our search identified a Department of Agriculture employee who earned over $179,000 as a base salary and a $62,895 bonus.
more
Federal Workers' 2011 Salary Data Exposed Online | wusa9.com
Federal Workers' 2011 Salary Data Exposed Online
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Your paycheck information, or that of your neighbor's, is likely on a new database that went public Tuesday morning.
It opens the curtain on the personal payroll of over one million federal workers.
Click here for latest update on $439 Million in bonuses paid to federal workers.
By clicking here, you can access the DataUniverse.com 2011 payroll information too.
The data, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act placed with the Office of Personnel Management by a WUSA9/Gannett sister publication, The Asbury Park Press, allows you to enter a federal worker's name to obtain salary and bonus information.
DataUniverse.com estimates the databank covers about 70% of federal workers, but Department of Defense, White House, Congress, CIA, FBI, and some other agencies are excluded.
Before the system went online, 9NEWS Now's investigative reporter, Russ Ptacek, tested it by searching Veterans Affairs Secretary, Eric Shinseki.
In a split second, the database returned his $199,700 earnings in 2011.
You can also search by agency.
Our search identified a Department of Agriculture employee who earned over $179,000 as a base salary and a $62,895 bonus.
more
Federal Workers' 2011 Salary Data Exposed Online | wusa9.com