From PDF Chaos to Transparency: How One Developer Built a Government Salary Lookup

While Canadian government salaries are technically public, they were scattered across dozens of PDFs, making transparency an unintended casualty of poor data organization. A developer built FedPay to fix this, and the tool now attracts 15,000+ monthly visitors searching for salary information, demonstrating both the real demand for accessible government data and how individual creators can solve public service gaps with minimal resources.