Maryland State Employees (2018 - 2022)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Maryland Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Monthly electronic listings of all employees of the Maryland Executive Branch from January 1, 2018 to November 30, 2022. Specifically, I am seeking electronic listings of all individuals employed within all state agencies, commissions, and departments for each month from January 1, 2018 to July 31, 2022.

For each month, I’m seeking a spreadsheet, database, or delimited text file(s) — not paper records or a PDF created from data — with the following fields for each employee: full legal name, unique employee identification code, date of birth or age, title, department or agency, race, gender, full-time/part-time status, location, hire date, termination date, civil service status, and gross annual salary. If you cannot produce any of these fields, please let me know and generate only the available variables.

If these data are not available at monthly intervals, please produce the datasets at the most frequent interval possible. For example, if the data is not available monthly, please produce the data at quarterly intervals.

In addition, please include any lookup tables that may be needed to interpret the data. For example, if departments are listed with codes linked to a separate table, I will be happy to join the records myself, rather than require your staff to do so.

I am comfortable working with large data sets and can receive the records in a variety of formats (.dbf, .csv, .mdb, etc).

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Ben Goehring

Hi Terry,

Thank you for getting back to me! Did you upload documents to a file-sharing site? If so, would you be able to email them to me at bengoehr@umich.edu?

Thank you.

Best,
Ben

Hi Terry,

No, it does not appear so. I am attaching what I am seeing when I click on the Google Drive link.

Thanks!
Ben

Thanks Terry! This looks great. I just have a couple of quick questions:

1) Is it possible to receive copies of these data that include the service designation of each employee, as described here: https://dbm.maryland.gov/jobseekers/pages/servicecategories.aspx?

2) Is the hire date variable the original date that someone was hired by the state? Or the date that they began working in their most recent position? If it is the former, does it change if someone leaves the state workforce and then returns?

Thank you for all of your time and assistance!

Best,
Ben