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After four Houston City Council employees were fired for taking improper bonuses, Houston CIty Mayor Bill White said the bonuses were \"highly unusual for city workers.\" Fresh from IRE Bootcamp, reporter Matt Stiles wanted to check that out, resulting in an \"exclusive story showing that one in six city employees got paid extra money--totalling about $4 million.\" He got electronic payroll data for city employees, and joined that with performance and productivity incentives that were on a different database, using Microsoft Access. Working with Alexis Grant, the reporters followed up with interviews
Tags: city workers; payroll scandal; bonus payments; performance incentives; productivity incentives