Posted by Congressman Doug LaMalfa at 12:00 am on May 20, 2009 Comments Off on Legislator Salaries Cut
In a move that will be wildly popular on the heels of the Prop
1F passage, the California Citizens CompensationCommittee
will reduce salaries by 18%, reducing the legislators
grosssalary from $116,208 to $95,291. Under
Prop112 passed by voters in 1990, the Committee sets salaries
of legislators and higher offices. [Prop 140 later eliminated
retirement benefits for legislators as well as installing term
limits] Under the rules the cuts cannot take effect until Dec
2010.
Prop 6, passed in 1972, prohibits reduction of pay during a
legislators currentterm. Incoming and re-elected
Senators and Assembly representatives will see that cut
then.
The new lower salary will actually be
less than the salary was back in 2004,
when it was $99,000. The Committee then saw fit to hike it 3
times in 2 years as I recall to about $111,000, then $113,000 and
finally the current $116,208 figure [leadership gets a higher
salary] Taxpayers Ihappened to talk to
aboutthis today laughed when I told ’em of this news.
"Pay for performance" one told me.
As a whole, yep!… Read More