Post by pavel on Apr 22, 2016 7:05:00 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — South Carolina senators are proposing a 4 percent pay raise for state employees, doubling the amount offered by the House.
The Senate Finance Committee passed its $7.5 billion spending plan with almost no hassles and just about two hours of public discussion Thursday.
The House budget plan proposes a 2 percent increase. Senators said they felt state employees deserved a bigger pay hike because they haven’t had many raises in the past decade and because they went above their duties during last year’s flood.
“State employees, when that catastrophe came, they were out there day and night,” said Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/2016-04-21/sc-senate-proposes-4-percent-pay-raise-state-employees?v=1461275444
The Senate Finance Committee passed its $7.5 billion spending plan with almost no hassles and just about two hours of public discussion Thursday.
The House budget plan proposes a 2 percent increase. Senators said they felt state employees deserved a bigger pay hike because they haven’t had many raises in the past decade and because they went above their duties during last year’s flood.
“State employees, when that catastrophe came, they were out there day and night,” said Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman.
Read more: chronicle.augusta.com/news/2016-04-21/sc-senate-proposes-4-percent-pay-raise-state-employees?v=1461275444