S.C. state salary database

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• You can search by partial name statewide, a partial name in an agency, or all employees in an agency.
• To search by name, type in all or part of a name. (Example: "presley" or "pres" or "elvis".) Then choose an agency, or hit "Submit" to search all agencies.
• To search by agency, just pull down the agency's name and hit "Submit." Leave the name blank.
• Sort the results: By last name, by agency, or by (highest to lowest) or (lowest to highest) salary.

How old is the data and where does it come from? The State obtains the data through S.C. Freedom of Information Act requests. The S.C. Budget and Control Board supplies about 81 percent of the nearly 19,437 records in the database. The most recent update to that data was posted on the date in red above.

FOIA requests are sent separately to the following agencies. The most recent update of their data is indicated in parentheses following their name in the agency search list.

• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW COURT
• EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
• LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COUNCIL
• LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
• LEGISLATIVE PRINTING, INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
• LOTTERY COMMISSION
• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
• SANTEE COOPER
• S.C. COMMISSION ON PROSECUTION COORDINATION
• S.C. HOUSE STAFF
• S.C. JOBS - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
• S.C. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
• S.C. RESEARCH AUTHORITY
• S.C. SENATE STAFF
• S.C. STATE PORTS AUTHORITY

Generally, salaries of state employees earning less than $50,000 a year are available in $4,000 ranges from the Budget and Control Board, or, for the agencies listed above, directly from the agency of interest.

Why do we publish this data? A majority of agencies, commissions and other entities contained in this database pay employees through state appropriations. Some receive no state money and operate by generating their own revenue. They are included here because they were established to serve the public interest, were started with public money, and their payrolls are part of the public record.