NY lawmakers obtain pay lift making them nation's best-paid

NY lawmakers obtain pay lift making them nations best-paid

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ” Just inside hour dated for the New Year, New York lawmakers have become the highest paid condition legislators inside the nation under a invoice signed Saturday.

Members of both houses are getting a pay lift of USD32,000, for a base pay of USD142,000, under a invoice Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a day before her inauguration Sunday. That™s a 29% lift over their foregoing pay of USD110,000.

The rules with every one other accompanied by regulations went into effect Sunday.

Before the pay boost, condition lawmakers inside California were the highest paid accompanied by a yearly base pay of USD119,000, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

New York lawmakers passed the pay-raise bill all over a exceptional gathering inside late December.

The new pay lift comes accompanied by restrictions, though.

Starting inside 2025, outer external outside income will exist capped at USD35,000. Pay inside excess of that from military service, retirement plans, or investments will still exist allowed.

Some Democrats inside the legislature supported the pay raise, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by said it was obligatory inside order to retain up accompanied by the cost of living.

But some Republican lawmakers spoke not here opposed to the invoice all over the exceptional session, criticizing the ban on the outer external outside income.

Their try to buy political cover by instituting a ban on outer external outside income won™t build Albany better, it will build it worse, said condition Sen. George Borrello inside explaining his no indeed indeed ballot on the bill.

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Borrello said the ban would discourage theme legislators, or enterprising, accomplished individuals accompanied by real-world experience from entering condition service.

The last pay lift condition legislators received was inside 2018, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by that was their earliest lift inside place of set of two decades.

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Maysoon Khan is a corps subscriber for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national labour program that places journalists inside local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter at: twitter.com/MaysoonKhan.