A note from the developer

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We started publishing Salary Guide in Spring 2010, a time when data journalism began moving into its “hyperactive toddlerhood.” At that time, Salary Guide was about providing readers with a single number: a certain person’s salary. But The Daily Illini billed itself as a guide to people’s salaries, not a dictionary. As data journalism matures, we owe it to our entire audience to provide you with visualized, contextualized information that will help you actually understand what each salary means.

We built this year’s Salary Guide with the goal of making it easy for our readers to arm themselves with this information. The question “who earns the most?” is unambiguously answered within the pages of this edition. But the question “is this fair?” is more complicated. We hope that our work makes answering that question much easier for you, whether you’re a University employee, tuition-paying student or parent, or just someone interested in the University of Illinois.

This is the first of what we hope will be many applications that will help students, faculty, staff and anyone with an interest in how the University of Illinois and the Champaign-Urbana region operates.

So visit SalaryGuide.DailyIllini.com on your mobile phone or your desktop computer. We hope you find the experience thoroughly informative. Happy searching!

Nathaniel can be reached at [email protected] and @nat_lash.

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