Pennsylvania’s lawmakers will receive a 7.8% pay increase on Dec. 1, the largest bump in legislative salaries in over a quarter of a century.
There was talk as recently as last week that legislative leaders were holding discussions on a proposal to modify that state law by putting a hard cap on the size of the increase that would have set it lower than what the CPI allowed. Those negotiations failed to achieve an agreement at last check. One source said that a total freeze on salaries at current levels had been discussed at the outset but others argued it would be too onerous for many of the lower-paid officials - including lawmakers - covered by the COLA clause.but one that’s more on par with the kind of pay raises other Pennsylvanians are getting.
She is one of just six out of 253 legislators who have done that to any degree in the current session, according to state Treasury records, the others being: Reps. Greg Rothman, R-Hampden Township, Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon, and Tim Bonner, R-Mercer; and Sens. Kristin Phillips-Hill, R-York County, and Pat Stefano, R-Fayette County.
The covered salaries - because of the automatic COLA language put in place in 1995 - have grown at a steady pace through the last generation. The governor takes home the highest salary in the executive branch, currently at $213,026, though Gov. Tom Wolf has made a practice of donating his state pay to charities. Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro can look forward to a salary of nearly $230,000.
PA citizens taxes are 100% going up as well in the coming years.
Must be nice for them...
Nice while the rest of us are all dealing with record high oil/ gas prices skyrocketing food prices and record high inflation and no raises. Just our taxes getting raised. Ridiculous