Howard County: No Plans to Publish Employee Salaries Online
Salaries are provided upon request. The Department of Public Works director is the highest paid Howard County employee.
Howard County officials said they do not plan to follow Baltimore County, which decided to publish its employees’ salaries online--an action the jurisdiction next door took this month. “The information is public and we have provided it every time and to every person who has requested it, and we have done so quickly,” wrote county spokesman Kevin Enright in an e-mail. “But we do not plan on posting employees salaries online at this time.” In response to requests for interviews with county executive Ken Ulman on the issue, Enright said his response represented “the county and the county executive's response.” Enright provided the top five highest-paid county government employees in Howard County the same day Patch made the request, July 5. …
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