Chiang updates state salary figures.

State Controller John Chiang unveiled an updated website showing the salary, pension benefits and other employee compensation for several hundred local transit, waste disposal, and fire and police protection districts. Chiang website

"Californians were offered instant access to salary information in their own communities when I launched the first public payroll site of city and county compensation last fall," said Chiang. "Posting this information allows California residents to see where their public dollars are being spent and to better hold their local agencies accountable."

Last October, the Controller collected and posted wage information for more than 600,000 city and county employees. He then ordered special districts across the state to report the same information.