The Craft of Research

While investigating the question Annais posed yesterday about translating job title codes on the New York City Civil List, I came to the conclusion that the easiest way to do it is just use SeeThroughNY’s City of New York payroll database.  Using yesterday’s example of Thomas Farley, SeeThroughNY lists his position as Commissioner of Health rather than the job code number of 94357 on the Civil List, not to mention it gives his entire first name rather than just a first initial.  I would still check the Civil List to confirm a salary since it is the primary source, but SeeThroughNY is definitely the more user-friendly tool.  Also note that the Civil Lists go back farther than SeeThroughNY if you need to check salaries from past years.