Federal employee salary redacted

[Anonymous]

As a fed, how do you get your public salary information redacted? I looked someone up and their salary said $0 but I know it to be over $200K.

[Anonymous]

How do you look up salary info?

[Anonymous]

Work for an intelligence agency

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work for an intelligence agency

This person is not in the IC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a fed, how do you get your public salary information redacted? I looked someone up and their salary said $0 but I know it to be over $200K.

Why do you care?

[Anonymous]

When did they get hired? Maybe their information hasn't been registered yet.

[Anonymous]

govsalaries.com is the site to look people up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:govsalaries.com is the site to look people up

Tried it. It says N/A.

[Anonymous]

I’m in FOIA and I give this information out constantly (which is how the websites got it). Federal employees have no expectation of privacy.

Some websites are nice and only release salaries over 100k

[Anonymous]

A person can’t request not to have the data released. It all comes from a FOIA request those websites make each year. Some positions are excluded, but it’s based on exclusions in the law for those specific jobs.

[Anonymous]

Another exclusion outside of the intelligence agencies are independent agencies where pay is based on performance- as in, I get a 20K salary increase if my performance was awesome last year and a 15K increase if it was good.

It can be witheld from FOIA and then not make it to those websites because of that privacy info.

Given that you said this person makes over 200K I'm guessing this is the reason. Try looking up other people at their agency. Are all the salaries redacted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another exclusion outside of the intelligence agencies are independent agencies where pay is based on performance- as in, I get a 20K salary increase if my performance was awesome last year and a 15K increase if it was good.

It can be witheld from FOIA and then not make it to those websites because of that privacy info.

Given that you said this person makes over 200K I'm guessing this is the reason. Try looking up other people at their agency. Are all the salaries redacted?

Sorry why would that be withheld under FOIA? Bonuses are public information as well. I fail to see how anyone outside of intelligence and DOD can get their salaries withheld.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another exclusion outside of the intelligence agencies are independent agencies where pay is based on performance- as in, I get a 20K salary increase if my performance was awesome last year and a 15K increase if it was good.

It can be witheld from FOIA and then not make it to those websites because of that privacy info.

Given that you said this person makes over 200K I'm guessing this is the reason. Try looking up other people at their agency. Are all the salaries redacted?

Sorry why would that be withheld under FOIA? Bonuses are public information as well. I fail to see how anyone outside of intelligence and DOD can get their salaries withheld.

Because disclosing a performance based bonus would disclose an employee's performance ratings, and that's not subject to foia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another exclusion outside of the intelligence agencies are independent agencies where pay is based on performance- as in, I get a 20K salary increase if my performance was awesome last year and a 15K increase if it was good.

It can be witheld from FOIA and then not make it to those websites because of that privacy info.

Given that you said this person makes over 200K I'm guessing this is the reason. Try looking up other people at their agency. Are all the salaries redacted?

Sorry why would that be withheld under FOIA? Bonuses are public information as well. I fail to see how anyone outside of intelligence and DOD can get their salaries withheld.

"Fail to see it" all you want, but take a look for the executives at FDIC, OCC, Fed, etc. Bet you won't find them. Try Farm Credit Administration. It has been litigated and some agencies choose to disclose, but others have consistently withheld.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you look up salary info?

https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/