Civil Beat Shares Hawaii Health Systems Corp. Salaries

Nanea Kalani/Civil Beat

Hawaii's public hospital system employs more than 4,000 workers, and payroll represents two-thirds of the organization's $547 million annual budget.

Hawaii Health Systems Corp. (HHSC), which runs 14 health-care facilities on five islands, received about one-eighth of its budget last year, or $66.9 million, from the state's general fund, with most of its operating budget coming from patient services.

Civil Beat filed a request under the state’s open records law asking for the names, positions and salaries of the system's employees. The request is part of a larger effort to make more transparent how the state is spending taxpayer money. (You can also read articles about state salaries, University of Hawaii salaries and pay at the Legislature.) HHSC provided a list of 4,092 employees organized alphabetically, not by facility or region. For unionized employees, the HHSC provided Civil Beat with salary ranges.

The HHSC salary data reflects a 5 percent pay cut taken by executive and nonunion employees, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2009. HHSC employees represented by the Hawaii Government Employees Association also took a 5 percent cut in pay, effective Oct. 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011. On April 1, employees represented by the United Public Workers union began taking furlough days twice a month, also through June 30, 2011.

Here is the data as provided by HHSC to Civil Beat.

Civil Beat has created a searchable database for full members to make the data more accessible. Here's an example of such a database.

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