Community

Community submission policy

This database is only as good as the community that maintains it. A few simple rules keep it useful and fair.

Do

• Submit accurate figures you have reason to believe are current.
• Use the structured fields — salary type, effective date, base vs total comp — so departments compare consistently.
• Attach a public source (pay plan, careers page, CBA/meet-and-confer) when you can. It isn’t required.
• Confirm existing information when it still looks right, and dispute it when it doesn’t.

Don’t

• Don’t upload personal pay stubs, employee numbers, Social Security numbers, medical information, private disciplinary records, or confidential personnel documents.
• Don’t upload documents you aren’t authorized to share.
• Don’t submit placeholder, test, joke, or deliberately misleading data.
• Don’t use free-form notes as a substitute for the structured salary fields.

How consensus works

Routine submissions publish automatically — the owner does not approve every update. Matching reports build confidence; conflicting reports stay visible and are labeled. Unusual changes (large jumps, out-of-range values, rapid multi-department activity) may be flagged for additional confirmation rather than deleted. Every submission is preserved as a revision.

Moderation

Administrators handle spam, abuse, and clearly fraudulent submissions, and can suspend accounts that break these rules. Suspicious information is placed in a flagged state, not silently removed. See the removal process for correction requests.