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Caught a brief article about this in the Daily Herald yesterday.
The Herald linked to this page. The "Compensation and Benefits" information on this page links to a PDF that is kind of stunning in its "transparency".
Like, it shows all salaries, benefits and pension contributions for employees of Hoffman Estates. They have almost 100 firemen with a population of about 52K.
Wowser!!
Is this the start of a trend, where all towns, cities and villages start freely showing what salaries and perks tax dollars are buying?
Boy, I hope so.
Edit: If the text is too small when you open the PDF, just enlarge it by clicking on the text size pane in the toolbar. 100% should work for most people.
I remember communities doing this in tiny print along with the budget details in newspapers in the 80's to comply with some type of public disclosure. But then it stopped.
