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State Board To Consider Cutting Lawmaker Salaries


State Board To Consider Cutting Lawmaker Salaries - KGOU

A state board in charge of determining legislators' salaries decided on Tuesday to keep compensation for state senators and representatives ...

Bill to cut lawmakers' salaries, push for part-time legislature - YouTube

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Cut the Pay for State Legislators? - Milwaukee Magazine

The measure to cut school board salaries ultimately failed, but Florida legislators were able to raise their own salaries closer to the state ...

Low salaries mean not everyone can afford to be a legislator

The report also recommends that lawmakers create independent compensation committees or commissions that can review potential pay increases.

Oklahoma board considers reducing legislator pay, benefits

State Rep. Bobby Cleveland said he was surprised to hear the panel was considering reducing legislator salaries and questioned whether a pay cut ...

Oklahoma legislative leaders to get pay increases. Most lawmakers ...

The Legislative Compensation Board, which is made up of non-elected officials appointed by the governor and legislative leaders, declined to ...

Pay Problem - National Conference of State Legislatures

In most legislatures, it's up to lawmakers to decide if they should raise their own salaries, making it almost impossible to do so. The issue is ...

Which state legislators opted to take a cut in pay? Who hasn't?

State lawmakers cut state employees wages by 3 percent through June 2013, one of many actions taken to erase a $5 billion blot of budgetary red ...

Idaho lawmaker salaries could double under proposal

A proposal to nearly double state lawmakers' salaries is at an impasse – for now – after a citizens' committee deadlocked on a tie vote ...

State lawmakers earn low salaries. It impacts who can afford to be one.

The report analyzed salaries in several legislatures around the country and concluded that most lawmakers are paid wages that do not allow them ...

Reduction in pay: State board votes to cut Oklahoma legislators ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – As Oklahoma lawmakers continue to battle it out after eight weeks in a special session, it seems that their pay is about to ...

State's top elected officials could be hit with pay cut - Hanford Sentinel

K. William Curtis, chief counsel of the Department of Personnel Administration who also serves as the commission's attorney, said it's clear the ...

How much should state legislators be paid? : r/PoliticalDiscussion

NPR published a piece today highlighting that some state lawmakers are paid so little they are often not able to support themselves and ...

Legislature salaries to rise alongside median household income in ...

While legislators can no longer vote on their own salary increases, Amendment 8 has largely resulted in steady increases for state politicians' ...

House Republicans Are Looking to Cut Agencies or Specific Feds ...

The House is set to approve a measure that will make it easier for lawmakers to eliminate federal agencies or slash the pay of individual employees.

Kansas lawmakers on track for hefty salary increases in 2025

The subject of legislative pay has long been a tricky one. The state's 165 legislators average a base salary of $88.66 for every day during ...

The Legislative Compensation Board's shortsighted cut - NonDoc

Members of the Legislative Compensation Board voted to reduce Oklahoma lawmaker pay, but they did not discuss the obvious ramification of such action.

Not all Georgia lawmakers want a raise. But for others, the $22k ...

This year, there was no legislation concerning the pay of lawmakers. The most recent attempt to raise the pay came in 2022 when House members ...

Congressional Salaries and Allowances: In Brief - CRS Reports

the House and Senate allowances are structured differently, both are determined by formulas based on variables from the district or state (e.g., distance from ...

2023 Legislator Compensation

Legislator compensation varies across legislatures. The lowest annual state legislator salary in 2023 was $100 and the highest annual state ...