{"id":1644,"date":"2024-01-18T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/nj-gov-murphy-greenlights-33k-pay-hike-for-lawmakers-other-raises\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:06:07","slug":"nj-gov-murphy-greenlights-33k-pay-hike-for-lawmakers-other-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/nj-gov-murphy-greenlights-33k-pay-hike-for-lawmakers-other-raises\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Gov. Murphy greenlights $33K pay hike for lawmakers, other raises"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy<\/a> has signed legislation to boost lawmakers’ salaries from $49,000 to $82,000 along with raises for his successor and other top officials.<\/p>\n

Murphy signed the bill on Tuesday, according to a news release from his office. He made no comment on the measure, which passed the Democrat-led Legislature on the final day of the previous legislative session earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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The bill doesn’t take effect until 2026, so Murphy, who leaves office in January 2026, won’t benefit. The two-term incumbent cannot run for a third straight stint as governor. The Assembly<\/a> will face voters in the regular 2025 general election before the raise takes effect.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers haven\u2019t voted themselves a pay increase since 2002, and some argued that the 67% increase is needed to keep up with rising costs<\/a>. They also said they sometimes had to dip into their own pockets to perform the duties the job requires.<\/p>\n

Republicans questioned the soundness of a pay raise, and many opposed it.<\/p>\n

The legislation increases the governor\u2019s salary from $175,000 to $210,000 annually and boosts the top rate for Cabinet and other top officials to $210,000 from $175,000 as well. It also boosts the amount lawmakers get specifically to pay their staff, from $135,000 to $150,000. Legislators, unlike in some other states, don\u2019t get a per diem rate or car mileage reimbursements.<\/p>\n

Just how much the measure would cost taxpayers wasn\u2019t clear. Simple math suggests the increase for lawmakers’ salaries would come with a nearly $4 million price tag.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s Legislature is considered part-time, meeting regularly from January to June and typically taking time off over the summer and in the lead-up to elections before returning for a lame-duck session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation to boost lawmakers’ salaries from $49,000 to $82,000 along with raises for his successor and other top officials. Murphy signed the bill on Tuesday, according to a news release from his office. He made no comment on the measure, which passed the Democrat-led Legislature on the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}