L.M. from Florida writes:
Dear Mister Condo,
In Florida, can unit owners inspect individual salaries of the 6 association employees?
Mister Condo replies:
L.M., in so much as salaries and payroll records are association records, it would follow that as a unit owner within the association, you and your fellow unit owners should be able to see salaries of association employees. However, the association does not have to turn over all employment records as there is sensitive information, including social security numbers, and even criminal background checks and so on that may be a part of the employee’s personnel file that unit owners are not entitled to see and, in fact, should be prohibited from seeing. This assumes that the association directly employs the employees. If a property management firm on behalf of the association employs these employees then their salaries are the business of the management company and not the association. In that case, all a unit owner would be able to request is a copy of the management company agreement. May I ask why you would want to know the salary of an association employee? As a unit owner, you have entrusted the decision to hire and compensate association employees to the Board of Directors. They are the ones who are in the best position to make sure these individuals are compensated properly for their efforts and that their work provides value to the association. All the best!
Thank you for your answer that in Fla condo unit owners are entitled to receive individual employee salaries.
I asked this question because I requested this info from management and was given only total payroll. I filed a complaint with Tallahassee. The matter, through management, was turned over to the association attorney, and at great expense to the association, not to give me the individual salaries was filed with Tallahassee. The association was not given a violation.
Tallahassee suggested I ask for access to copies of all employee checks. This is the point I am at now. I have been trying since last August to receive individual employee salaries with no success which was the reason for my question. I believe they are hiding the very high salary of the manager. Something is not right here in not being given the individual salaries, nothing more than the salaries am I asking for. No personal info. etc.
I thank you for your valuable info to me.