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Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases :: FITSNews
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For the times they are a-changin'.
With her state facing an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley handed out huge salary increases to top gubernatorial staffers on her first full day in office. She also doled out big salaries to newly-created positions within the governors office.
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Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.
Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.
Haleys deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs Trey Walker will be paid $122,775 a year. Thats a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.
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Lawmakers appropriated $1.8 million to the governors office for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2010. It is unclear exactly how much of that money has been spent, although Haley has committed to paying 17 people a total of $1.2 million over the next year.
Whereas Sanfords office had eight employees making $50,000 a year or more, Haleys office has twelve and all of them are being paid more than their predecessors.
For the times they are a-changin'.