Alaskan lawmakers rejected a proposal that would raise pay for the state's governor and top leaders. Officials suggested the increase due to salaries not keeping up with inflation.
last received salary increases in 2011, and proposed raising the salary for governor from $145,000 a year to about $176,000 and for lieutenant governor from $125,000 to about $140,000.
The last increase for department heads was in 2015, the report said. If enacted, their salaries would go from $141,160.50 to approximately $168,000. Under state law, the recommendations are adopted unless a bill rejecting them is enacted within 60 days after they are submitted. The report was dated Jan. 24. The bill rejecting the salary increases will next go toThe Legislature last year rejected a commission proposal that called for higher annual salaries for lawmakers but restrictions on the daily allowance they can receive during sessions.
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