Massachusetts lawmakers eligible for 6.46% pay raise; Gov. Baker, Lt. Gov. Polito say they will forgo raises
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
Massachusetts lawmakers are in store for another pay raise.
Two years after Gov. Charlie Baker certified a raise of 5.93 percent for the 200 members of the House and Senate for the 2019-2020 session, the governor in a letter to Treasurer Deb Goldberg on Wednesday advised her that a 6.46 percent increase is warranted in the base pay of legislators.
The raise in the base pay for legislators last session increased it by $3,709 to $66,256. A 6.46 percent increase works out to a $4,280 raise to $70,536.
In early 2017, legislators ignited an uproar by voting through a generous package of pay raises for themselves and other public officials, outside of the changes in compensation that the governor is required to make every two years. The adjustments in legislative base pay are required biennially under the state constitution, based on changes in the media
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BOSTON – Massachusetts lawmakers are in store for another pay raise.
Two years after Gov. Charlie Baker certified a raise of 5.93% for the 200 members of the House and Senate for the 2019-2020 session, the governor in a letter to Treasurer Deb Goldberg on Wednesday advised her that a 6.46% increase is warranted in the base pay of legislators based on changes in median household income.
The raise in the base pay for legislators last session increased it by $3,709 to $66,256. A 6.46%t increase works out to a $4,280 raise to $70,536.
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at
Monthly Review. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.
The authors thank John Mage, Craig Medlen, and Fred Magdoff for their assistance.
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