The Attorney General’s opinion was rendered today that the release of this information was acceptable under the state Freedom of Information Act. We have removed the employee names to protect their privacy.
This list proves that state government is too big and taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay some of these high salaries. Of the 29,930 positions on the list, just 267 earn more than $100,000 per year while 2,546 earn less than $22,000 per year, which is the poverty level for a family of four.