Editorial Process
Every dataset on plainsalary is traced to its named public source and documented in our methodology. The publisher is accountable for the data framing, methodology, and corrections you read here.
plainsalary is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.
Download the compiled take-home extract: take-home-pay-by-state.csv (same extract as /statistics).