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sbb618 t1_j1ctdq8 wrote

It says in the article that the current salary took effect in 2019. Cumulative inflation from 2019 to 2023 is (using monthly estimates for the year which doesn't have official data yet) something in the range of 24%. Combine that with the cap on outside income and this seems fine. There's a lot more to get angry about before this.

EDIT: Additionally, before that, the last pay increase was in 1999. The 1999 to 2019 increase was from $79k to $110k, or a 39% increase, over a period with 53% total inflation. This last increase pretty much just gives the rest of the pay bump from that.

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Cyase311 t1_j1d06mu wrote

Stop making sense. We want to complain.

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mowotlarx t1_j1dv96j wrote

It's correct to complain when the salaries for state and city workers haven't gone up at all since 2019. City workers haven't had a single cost of living increase since 2019.

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OrangeSlimeSoda t1_j1e6rdw wrote

Exactly this. As Dwight Eisenhower once said: "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity." They're giving themselves a pay raise while we have chronically underpaid educators from grade school all the way up to SUNY, not to mention the healthcare workers who are threatening to strike due to unsatisfactory pay. It reeks of self-interest and a lack of integrity.

Legislators should be the last ones to get a pay raise and only when pay raises across the state have been addressed. As that old Marine adage goes (which has been monopolized by that annoying motivational speaker Simon Sinek): "Leaders eat last."

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lickedTators t1_j1d3f90 wrote

Anything more than what I make is blatant corruption. Anything less than what I make is a recipe for lawmakers to sell their souls to the corporations for a cushy job once they're out of office.

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