Georgia Lawmakers Propose Big Raises For Themselves, Other Officials

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March 4th, 2021

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“I don’t know many people who have gone that long without some kind of pay raise,” House Speaker David Ralston, a Blue Ridge Republican, told reporters Wednesday. “We have people that give three full months or more of their life each year to come up here and be here full time.”

(David Goldman / Associated Press file)

David Goldman / Associated PRess file

Updated at 5:25 p.m. Thursday

Georgia’s House speaker is backing a plan that would nearly double pay for lawmakers and also boost pay for all statewide officials except the governor.

Base pay for the 180 House members and 56 senators would rise from $16,200 a year to $29,908.

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