How do you find out peoples Earnings?

Question

I know that you can find out what peoples earnings were for a certain year because it is public information. News people do it all the time but how do they do it. Is there a website that allows you to view public information about a certain persons income or assests? I live in Arizona so it may be different here than other states.

Answer 1

Not everyones earnings are public record. Earnings for government employees are public record and certain corporations might have provided compensaion information for officers to the stockholders.  For government employees you can make a request to the government subdivision for information, for example a city hall, state government, etc. High level government employees are sometimes responsible for filing disclosure forms that list outside sources of income too.