Politics & Government

Connecticut Workers Getting 5-6 Percent Pay Raises

The salary hikes for state employees will cost the state $125 million.

This article is written and reported by Eileen McNamara: 

As part of a deal Gov. Dannel P. Malloy negotiated in 2011 some 45,000 state workers will get pay raises of as much as 6 percent starting Monday. 

The salary hikes for both union and nonunion state employees will cost Connecticut taxpayers $125 million, according to a report on the Hartford Courant.

Union workers haven't gotten a raise for nearly three years and nonunion workers, such as managers, haven't gotten salary adjustments in closer to five years, the newspaper reports. 

Under the salary hikes going into affect next week state department heads,  commissioners and senior staffers in Malloy's office won't get raises, according to the blog Capitol Watch. 

The raises are part of a negotiated contract settlement Malloy negotiated with state union leaders two years ago. 

At the same time that the pay raises go out next week, the state will discontinue its controversial "longevity payments" to nonunion managers, the Courant reports. Those payments, some of which were as high as $13,000 annually, will be folded into those managers' regular pay from now on, the newspaper reports. 


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