Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009

Data updates: State, local salary, food inspections

We've been busy updating our popular salary and food inspection databases, and we wanted to let you know.

Salary data

Our state and local salary collections contain 5,600 local and nearly 20,000 statewide positions. Local salaries included are for Kershaw, Lexington and Richland county government, most municipalities in those counties and school districts. More than half the data in the local agencies database has been updated in the last two weeks and new data is coming in daily. The date we received the data for each entity is included in the search results.

This information is available via Freedom of Information Act submissions, as state law requires base salaries be made available upon request for certain classes of state employees making $50,000 or more annually. More information about how we obtain and why we share this information is available on the salary search pages.

» Go to the state salary database

» Go to the local salary database

Restaurant inspections

Our restaurant inspection database contains thousands of Dept. of Health and Environmental Control inspection results for eateries in Kershaw, Lexington and Richland counties. The data can be searched by county, restaurant name, address (find results from all restaurants with "Harbison" in the street name, for example), city, ZIP code or inspection type or result.

The results also include maps and addresses.

New data is added to this database weekly.

More information about what the scores and posted grades mean, and how inspections are done is available on the search page:

» Go to the restaurant inspection database

More data

» Database homepage

-- Kelly Davis, kdavis@thestate.com

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