As a Federal employee, my complete salary is posted for public consumption.
What’s your next attempt at logic?
My bad, I wasn’t clear. Here’s the focused version:
While you’d like to have open gov’t records most people don’t. My take is that sometimes it’s easier to work out the details for somethings in private (say, like w/ lawyer/client consultation) and then announce the overall proposal in public (the courtroom case to the judge & jury).