Lawsuit filed to get salaries of state employees

HELENA (AP) — A Bozeman nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit to find out additional information about the salaries and compensation for all 13,000 Montana governmental employees.

The Montana Policy Institute, a Bozeman-based think tank that advocates government transparency, in its lawsuit filed last week in District Court in Helena contends that the state Department of Administration did not provide it with the workers' actual compensation, including bonuses and overtime.

"We want to know what each state employee made, with bonus and OT (overtime) — the W-2 number," said the institute's presid...