State Board Recommends Pay Raises

The Missouri Citizens Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials is recommending that Missouri judges and elected officials get a pay raise if state employees do, according to the AP.

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From the wire service:

Associate circuit judges also would get a $1,500 annual boost over the next two years under the proposal approved Tuesday. If state workers get no salary boost, elected officials wouldn't either. If state workers get no salary boost, elected officials wouldn't either. But the associate circuit judges would still get the $1,500. The commission's suggestions take affect unless the
two-thirds of the Legislature reject it. The proposal was endorsed 9-0, but the commission is supposed to have 22 members. The vacancies are because Gov. Matt Blunt didn't make any appointments. Blunt says elected officials shouldn't get raises right now.