What's New on SeeThroughNY
April 9, 2013 - Updated legislative expenditures for the New York State Legislature were posted today.
January 30, 2013 - The 2012 state government payroll, which includes pay received by 291,364 people who worked in the state's executive, legislative, or judicial branches, was posted today.
January 25, 2013 - The new "Explore Your State Budget" app provides New Yorkers with the ability to instantly access, browse through and download financial details of the state budget.
January 18, 2013 - Payroll data for 62,545 employees of New York State public authorities is now available.
November 13, 2012 - Earnings for 366,640 employees of New York State school districts, including teachers and other employees, were posted today.
October 16, 2012 - Payroll data for 165,554 city, county, town, and village government employees, outside of New York City, is now available.
October 11, 2012 - Updated legislative expenditure data was posted today.
June 11, 2012 - Updated pension benefit data for 367,806 retired New York state and local government employees was posted today.
February 28, 2012 - Payroll data for 288,539 New York State government employees was posted today.
December 6, 2011 - Payroll data for 394,443 New York City government employees was posted today.
November 21, 2011 - 360 school labor contracts were posted today.
November 3, 2011 - Earnings for 373,971 school employees was posted today.
October 11, 2011 - Updated legislative spending data was posted today.
October 6, 2011 - The names and pension benefit rates of more than 16,000 New York City Fire Department retirees were added to SeeThroughNY today.
October 4, 2011 - The names and salaries of more than 168,000 people who worked for New York's county, city, town and village governments in 2010-2011 were posted today.
September 8, 2011 - Updated pension benefit data for 352,771 retired New York state and local government employees was posted today.
July 12, 2011 - The Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll has been updated, it includes records for the public authority's 73,919 employees.
June 29, 2011 - Payroll records for the 7,345 employees of the Port Authority of NY & NJ were updated today.
May 18, 2011 - Pension benefit data for 136,644 retired school teachers and administrators was updated today.
May 12, 2011 - Benchmarking New York was updated to include new local expenditure data and an all new Property Tax Calculator.
March 17, 2011 - Payroll records for the 273,983 state government employees, who worked for the state in 2010, were released today.
February 8, 2011 - NYC Council pork-barrel member-item spending -- $54.4 million worth -- for fiscal 2011 has been posted.
January 31, 2011 - Retirement allowances for 44,370 retired NYC police officers, minus names withheld by the pension fund (more on that here), were posted today.
November 10, 2010 - Payroll records for 402,896 public school employees, outside of New York City, were updated today. (NYC school salaries were updated as part of the city payroll in July.)
October 6, 2010 - Pension data for 203,474 retired New York City government employees was posted today. The new data includes retirees from three of the five NYC retirement systems; the NYC Employees Retirement System, the NYC Teachers Retirement System and the Board of Education Retirement System.
September 15, 2010 - Updated school labor contracts for 77 teacher unions and 112 school superintendents were posted today.
September 8, 2010 - Office expenditures of individual state Senators and Assembly members for the six month period ending March 31, 2010 have been posted.
August 26, 2010 - The names and salaries of more than 186,000 people who worked for New York's county, city, town and village governments in 2009-2010 were posted today.
July 28, 2010 - Payroll data for 409,878 New York City government employees was posted today. This new data set includes names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received in 2009.
June 16, 2010 - Pension data for 342,543 retired New York state and local government employees was posted today. This new data set includes name, benefit rate, retirement date and, in most cases, last known employer for all individuals collecting pension benefits from the New York State and Local Retirement System.
June 2, 2010 - The MTA payroll was updated today. Included are names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received for the 74,708 employees who worked for the MTA in 2009.
May 13, 2010 - Updated school labor contracts for 71 teacher unions and 62 school superintendents were posted today.
May 12, 2010 - Pension data for educators' was posted today. This new data set includes name, benefit rate, retirement date and last known employer for 134,796 retired school teachers and administrators collecting pensions in 2009.
April 13, 2010 - The Port Authority of NY & NJ payroll was updated today. Included are names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received for the 7,449 employees who worked for the Port Authority in 2009.
March 31, 2010 - Payroll files for public authorities were posted today. The new data include names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received for 59,979 public authority employees.
March 17, 2010 - Office expenditures of individual state Senators and Assembly members for the six month period ending September 30, 2009 have been posted.
March 10, 2010 - New Yorkers today can search the payroll records of the 298,247 state government workers employed by New York State in 2009.
February 24, 2010 - Salaries of 262,088 teachers and administrators employed by New York State's public schools and colleges during the 2008-09 school year were posted today.
February 2, 2010 - Office expenditures of individual state Senators and Assembly members for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 have been posted.
November 16, 2009 - New Yorkers can now compare and evaluate per-pupil spending for school districts during the 2007-08 school year using Benchmarking New York, an online database.
October 8, 2009 - Payroll records for 121,961 custodians, bus drivers, aides, secretaries and other non-professional public school employees were posted today. The data cover the 12 month-period ending March 31, 2009.
September 18, 2009 - The names and salaries of more than 179,000 people who worked for New York's county, city, town and village governments in 2008-2009 were posted today.
August 25, 2009 - An updated staff payroll for the New York State Senate and Assembly was posted today. The payroll, current as of Aug. 17, can also be downloaded from the site in spreadsheet form. The payroll was obtained from the state comptroller's office by the Albany Times Union posted on its Capitol Confidential website, from which it was downloaded for SeeThroughNY.
August 19, 2009 - Payroll files for 384 public authorities were posted today. The new data include names, titles, base pay rates and total pay received for most of the 44,320 public authority employees.
August 13, 2009 - Updated school labor contracts for 77 teacher unions and 86 school superintendents were posted today.
August 5, 2009 - The Empire Center today marked the first anniversary of SeeThroughNY with the posting of $148.3 million in legislative pork barrel member items for 2009-10.
June 24, 2009 - The Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll has been updated to include total pay received by each of the 78,393 people who worked for the MTA at any point in 2008 as well as each employee's pay rate as of the end of the year.
May 14, 2009 - Salaries of 255,959 teachers and administrators employed by New York State's public schools and colleges during the 2007-2008 school year were posted today.
April 16, 2009 - Complete payrolls for four school districts, updated teacher union and schools superintendent contracts, and a new interactive user forum were added today to STNY.
April 8, 2009 - New Yorkers can now compare and evaluate per-capita spending and tax rates for counties, towns, cities and villages using Benchmarking New York, an online database. The new tool includes per-capita spending and tax totals in 16 categories as well as effective property tax rates and debt levels for 1,604 localities in the Empire State.
March 23, 2009 - The New York State government payroll has been updated to include total pay received by each of the 367,732 people who worked for the state at any point in 2008 as well as each employee's pay rate as of the end of the year.
January 6,2009 - The New York City payroll has been added to STNY.
December 18, 2008 - Payrolls of 19 New York public authorities--including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and regional transit authorities serving Western and Central New York--are now available.
October 1, 2008 - The latest expenditure reports from the Assembly and Senate were added to STNY today.
September 10, 2008 - Payrolls of two of New York’s largest public authorities—the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and the New York State Thruway Authority—are now available.
July 31, 2008 - SeeThroughNY launches.