Top Pennsylvania officials will get 1.7 percent pay raises.
Gov.-elect Tom Corbett will be paid $177,888 once he is sworn in Jan. 18., up from the $174,914 currently authorized for the governor, according to the state Department of Administration.
Corbett is the current state attorney general, one of three statewide elected row officers that also include state Auditor General Jack Wagner and state Treasurer Rob McCord. The uniform salary for the row officers is scheduled to increase from the current $145,529 to $148,003.
Newly elected and returning legislators will get the increases starting Dec. 1, when the new Legislature opens for business, even though they won't be sworn in until January.
Rank-and-file legislators' salaries will increase from $78,315 to $79,623, while salaries for the four legislative floor leaders will rise from $113,468 to $115,364, officials said. Increases for top officials in the executive and judicial branches take effect Jan. 1.
The raises, authorized by a 1995 law, are based on changes in the federal government's Consumer Price Index for the mid-Atlantic states.
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