Arkansas Employee Salaries (2019 - 2022)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Copies of the State of Arkansas employee salary data published on the "Transparency.Arkansas.gov" website (https://www.ark.org/dfa/transparency/employee_compensation.php) for each month from January 2019 through March 2022.

For each month, I’m seeking a spreadsheet, database, or delimited text file(s) — not paper records or a PDF created from data — with the following fields for every employee who worked in the Arkansas Executive Branch: Agency, Pay Class Category, Pay Scale Type, Position Number, Position Title, Extra Help Flag, Class Code, Employee Name, Career Service Date, Pay Grade, Gender, Race, Percent of Time, and Annual Salary.

Please include any lookup tables that may be needed to interpret the data. For example, if departments are listed with codes linked to a separate table, I will be happy to join the records myself, rather than require your staff to do so.

I am comfortable working with large data sets and can receive the records in a variety of formats (.dbf, .csv, .mdb, etc).

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Nicole Kanu, a citizen of Arkansas, in coordination with Ben Goehring.