Maryland State Employees (2018 - 2022)

Mr. Goehring,

We can only provide the following information on a quarterly basis for 18 quarters:

1. Employee name
2. Agency
3. Annual salary
4. Full time/Part status
5. Civil service status

Other information you are requesting is either PII or used internally security purposes.

Additionally, a research project of this complexity will cost us $2,131.68 in employee salaries. Should you wish to proceed, the Comptroller's Office will need that sum to be reimbursed upfront.

Please advise whether you would like to proceed.

Public Information Act Representative
Comptroller of Maryland
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Good afternoon,

The information you've requested is largely in the possession of the Department of Budget and Management, not the Comptroller of Maryland. We would be able to provide employee names, the state agency where employed, and base annual salary for these years - that is all. Additionally, data for 2022 is not available yet, and will take an additional 2-4 weeks to be made available, due to end-year closeouts of payroll information.

Please let me know whether you wish to proceed with this request.

Public Information Act Representative
Comptroller of Maryland
410-260-7696 o
[1]

Central Payroll Bureau
PIA Office
108 Carroll Street P.O.Box 2396
Annapolis, MD 21401-2396

December 5, 2022

This is a follow up to a previous request:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Maryland Public Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 24, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

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On Nov. 24, 2022:
Subject: Maryland Public Information Act Request: Maryland State Employees (2018 - 2022)
To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Maryland Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Monthly electronic listings of all employees of the Maryland Executive Branch from January 1, 2018 to July 31, 2022. Specifically, I am seeking electronic listings of all individuals employed within all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2018 to July 31, 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 each employee: full legal name, unique employee identification code, date of birth or age, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. If you cannot produce any of these fields, please let me know and generate only the available variables.

If these data are not available at monthly intervals, please produce the datasets at the most frequent interval possible. For example, if the data is not available monthly, please produce the data at quarterly intervals.

In addition, 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 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Ben Goehring

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