Gov. Bob Ferguson received a 7% raise on Wednesday. Combined with a similar-sized pay bump a year ago, his annual salary is $234,275, roughly $30,000 more than when he took the oath as Washington’s 24th governor in January 2025. It’s not his doing.

The Washington Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials, a panel established by voters in 1987, ended the practice of politicians deciding their own pay.

This panel of unelected individuals from across the state approved a new two-year salary schedule in March 2025 that awarded double-digit pay hikes for the offices of the governor, attorney general and state lawmakers.

  • savvie@lemmy.zipOP
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    5 days ago

    Certainly Governor Ferguson & other Washington state officials who have received recently a substantial pay hike will be contributing a substantial portion of that raise to food banks & other social services they are declining to appropriately fund under their new (“no new taxes!”) austerity budget for the state of Washington!