Why doesn the TOP System show salaries and wages paid to individual state employees?
The TOP system is required by Executive Order and state law to report the information available in the state’s accounting system, which does not contain individual employee wage and salary information. That information is contained in a separate system called the Colorado Personnel Payroll System (CPPS), which posts aggregated payroll information to the state’s accounting system after each payroll. This condition is a limitation of the state’s aging accounting system which was installed in the early 1990s and was based on technology from the 1980’s.
