Vt. lawmakers slated for pay raise

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As the state budget is being cut and other elected officials are taking pay reductions, Vermont lawmakers are slated to get an automatic raise of a bit less than 2% this year.

Some are talking about foregoing the increase from roughly $614 a week to a little more than $625 a week. There’s also talk about joining top executive branch officials in taking a 5% pay cut.

But if estimates from several lawmakers of ‘hours worked’ are taken into account, even with the raise legislators would be making less than Vermont’s minimum wage, which just jumped to $8.06 an hour.

Several said they typically work on legislative business 60 hours a week during the session and 10 hours a week the rest of the year.

But lawmakers say they’re not in it for the money.

 

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