A look at salaries for City of Annapolis employees

It is budget time for the City of Annapolis.  The new mayor, Mike Pantelides, has proposed a series of job eliminations, furloughs, and lay-offs for the City of Annapolis.  The local Annapolis newspaper, The Capital, has done a great public service by publishing the salaries for city employees.  And even though I know most of the information is public record, I do have to disagree with their publishing the individual's name alongside the salary data.  I think it would have been sufficient to just publish each position without the name or with a non-traceable ID.  But I took the data they provided and turned it into a data visualization that you can explore to see exactly which departments comman the highest salaries and employ the most individuals in the city.

I took the data from The Capital's Data Center: Annapolis webpage.  The only thing I did to change the data for the visualization is group departments into what I call "Sectors".  You can hover over the column header in the top bar chart and click the plus button to see how I grouped departments into sectors.  For instance, I took fire, police, and emergency management and grouped them into "Public Safety".  I also removed the names from the data source for my visualization and replaced them with IDs that should be non-traceable.  I did this to protect the privacy of lower level city employees.

Eventually I would like to get my hands on the City of Annapolis budget and see if I can create one of those budget tools that allow you to make your own cuts or increases and then see the impact of your decisions.

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Let me know what you think of this visualization in the comments below and if you would like to see this data presented in a different format.