State Controller John Chiang is up to his old good government tricks again, updating all that government salary info that some of us love to snoop into.
The state site has useful big picture data on cities, counties, state government and the state university system. HSU, it tells us, had 3,656 employees in 2012 and paid nearly $67 million in total wages, for an average of just $18,255. But yes, there are also some fast, easy ways to search for state employees by name. One of them, just updated this month by The Sacramento Bee, is here.