The statewide government payroll app has been, by far, the most popular feature at The Texas Tribune, accounting for nearly one in five clicks on our website. With that in mind, we sought to make it even better.

The new version contains data on 340,000 employees of the state's largest agencies, universities, cities, school districts, and mass-transit operators. That's more than $15 billion in public payroll that we collected under the Texas Public Information Act. Now, though, the app is easier to navigate, especially for people who don't come to it with a specific employee to ...

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