Why people look at this
Severance and retirement payouts are a common question about public-sector pay.
How it is worked out
- Compensation disclosure lists, 2022 to 2025: any severance amount above zero.
- Shown as counts and totals by employer, job title and year, without names.
Data used
What it cannot tell you
Severance in these lists includes negotiated retirement payouts as well as terminations.
The Open Contracting Partnership's guide to red flags puts it this way: a red flag is not evidence that anything wrong happened. It points at something that may be worth a closer look.
This page and the calculation are generated from one definition, so they cannot drift apart. See the results.