Government employee salary data (Michigan Civil Service Commission)

Your recent request for demographic and compensation information for employees of the Michigan Civil Service Commission (MCSC) has been received. No existing record meets your request. Clarification of your request is needed before a good-faith production-cost estimate can be provided. Most clarifications involve defining the requested compensation data. Due to the number of clarifications required, it would be easiest to discuss these matters on the phone. Among the clarifications that will be needed are: (1) are you seeking wages over a defined period or at a moment in time, (2) are pay premiums received for all hours worked based on job location or duties regular or other wages; (3) is overtime pay the OT premium for hours above the threshold or base wages plus the OT premium for hours above the threshold; (4) are leave payoffs at separation included and where; (5) if seeking wages over a defined period and an employee worked in separate positions during that period, is the employee's pay to be divided into separate rows based on the position received in; (6) are payroll charges to fund defined-benefit retirement costs, defined-contribution retirement costs, and unaccrued retirement liabilities included as compensation and where; (7) are payroll taxes included and where; (8) is severance pay included and where; (9) are travel expenses and meal reimbursements included and where; (10) are clothing and cleaning allowances included and where; and (11) for insurance benefits is just the employer's paid share the amount included?

I can be reached at 517-284-0113 to discuss these and other clarifications.

Alternatively, data in an existing record produced earlier this year with name, position description (job title), wage amount (total wages during 2018), organizational unit (MCSC), and location (MCSC-associated zip code) could be provided at no cost. If you would authorize provision of this data to satisfy your request, you could always, of course, submit another request if it did not meet your needs.

John Gnodtke
FOIA Coordinator
Michigan Civil Service Commission
517-284-0113

As described below, further clarification is required to respond to your request. I can be reached at 517-284-0113 to discuss. Thank you.

Due to deadlines under Michigan's FOIA and your failure to respond to clarify your response, your request is denied as described in the attached form. Your request can be renewed anytime by contacting the MCSC at this email address or 517-284-0113 to discuss the exact nature of the information sought to allow for a good-faith estimate of production costs. Thank you.