Thursday, April 7, 2022

Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo' Money

Statewide elected officials are going to get a nice little pay raise after the legislature passed HB #1426 this week.  Read and weep.


 Frankly, the salaries aren't that troublesome.  The Governor oversees a budget of several billion dollars.  Such an individual would command a much higher salary in the private sector.  The AG makes no more than District Attorneys.  JJ has never played "gotcha" over salaries as long as the position resume justifies the salary.  What usually happens is unqualified people are given outrageous salaries. 

56 comments:

Anonymous said...

BUT, BUT, BUT, I thought we were conservatives and favored cutting government spending?????

Anonymous said...

The salaries aren't outrageous.

One question - is the Speaker of the House a part-time employee like all legislators?

Anonymous said...

I wish they were paid what they are worth instead of what they think they are worth!!!!

Anonymous said...

pretty high salaries for a place that is nothing but a corrupt 3nd world country.
i would give my last dollar to see the feds turn off the gigantic money pipeline from washington to mississippi. then all the beautiful people of the SEC, the ''disadvantaged'' minorities, and the white trash could get a good old fashioned dose of the real world.

Anonymous said...

https://ballotpedia.org/Comparison_of_gubernatorial_salaries

Peanuts. He deserves a raise, that governor's salary has basically been unchanged since 2010

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one who noticed that our esteemed State Legislature raked about $778,000,000.00 of the American Rescue Plan’s $1.5 Billion (roughly half) off the table to be disbursed among small cities and counties across Mississippi? That is money that ostensibly would be used, as in other states, to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.
If y’all believe that extended session was spent in honest debate about our poor state’s needs then all I can say is naïveté can be expensive. I am so ashamed right now.

Anonymous said...

Delbert doesn’t live in that nice NE Jackson gated neighborhood making $80k a year. I’m a few houses up from him. I can assure you of this. What gives?

Anonymous said...

gotta love those big government conservatives!

Anonymous said...

well at least all the employees not making base level pay in new payment scheme because they were limited by the department head should see some increases finally.

Anonymous said...

Don't have a problem with giving them a raise. Don't have a problem with the new salary levels though I question why some offices were bumped to $120k while others were bumped to $150K.

But the size of the increases are terrible optics. OUTRAGEOUS to give a 67% increase. With each passing day the MSGOP acts more and more like Democrats.

Anonymous said...

Nothing to see here. Should be paged decent salary

Anonymous said...

Those are peanuts considering the head of the education dept and the IHL director make way over 300k each. Those are the salaries that are highway robbery.

Anonymous said...

No problem here.

Honestly, the low salaries might be why MS has trouble finding qualified people to run for office. I had no idea they were that low. A (competent) person could make $500k/yr+bonus running a multi-billion dollar company. Why would one leave a private sector career like that in order to make half the pay and be ridiculed every decision?

Anonymous said...

These are very reasonable salaries. In fact, I think they are all really low.

Anonymous said...

Most on these folks could make much more in the private sector, hell most of my rankin county officials make more than Statewides.

Anonymous said...

I don't have a problem with any of those salary increases.

Kingfish said...

Didn't Marshall Bennett only make $48k as treasurer?

Anonymous said...

Just keeping up with inflation, amirite?!

Anonymous said...

Well, let's see.
Teachers got a well deserved raise.
Legislature quietly sneaked significant pay increases to their friends in statewide office.
How much of a raise did state workers get? I have not seen, heard, or read of any.

Bless the favored; curse the rest.

Anonymous said...

Oh noooooooo, they increased salaries by 400k total out of a 6.4 billion total budget. Let's all melt down.

Anonymous said...

11.59 AM

Hosemann was a partner and tax attorney at Phelps Dunbar for many years. That paid substantially more than his salary as either Lt. Governor or Secretary of state.

Substantially.

More.

Substantially.

Hookah said...

No honor among thieves

Anonymous said...

Doesn’t take affect until 2024, so they gotta get re-elected to see the benefit. Might make some more qualified folks run against them.

Anonymous said...

Everyone has heard about "the largest teacher pay raise in history" & there was even talk of Troopers getting yet another academy & pay raised.
Can someone tell me how many times "state employee pay raise package" was mentioned during this session?
I'll wait....

Anonymous said...

I mean, I don't want to stir the pot here, but I could also use some kind of cost of living raise myself!

Anonymous said...

I'm outraged.
It's not that they don't get their salaries at the top supplimented with paid speeches and free " convention" vacations.

More over, in THIS State, these salaries are very good as the " private" sector comparable positions aren't held by Mississippians.

What is it about " public service" everyone's forgotten? It was NEVER intended to be a " career path" to wealth.

Boy, the general public has been brainwashed well in these last 5 decades.

Anonymous said...

Once again, it's all about WHO not WHAT. If the wrong people get the benefit of government fat, it's wasteful spending or that horrible word, "entitlement" If the "right" people get the money it's .....well...it's nothing, let's move on.

Anonymous said...

"Why would one leave a private sector career like that in order to make half the pay and be ridiculed every decision?"

Not many leave a good paying private job to go into government....unless the perks outweigh the salary. Look at all the politicians in DC who have been in a government position most of their lives yet live like millionaires.

Anonymous said...

I see that some of our overpaid political lackey assistants for our elected officials are defending the pay raises. Please get back to work and stop surfing the net.

Anonymous said...

I can't picture a White man saying the title of the thread without thinking to myself, "Sit your racist, cornball ass down."

I'm not talking to you Kingfish cause everyone knows YOU ARE not racist nor cornball.

Anonymous said...

You could cut these salaries in half and they would still spend millions running for these positions. They aren't getting rich off their salaries...

Anonymous said...

Do they not lead by example? What's the message? IT'S TIME TO GET PAID!!!

My Palms are Greasy said...

That's chump change compared to what they get in Tico's smoke filled back room.

Anonymous said...

These raises will save the special interests thousands, as they won't have to break out so much grease.

Bogeyman said...

Those salaries are so low that only rich or corrupt or losers want those jobs.

That'sMisterDeplorableToYou said...

Reckon why the LT. Gov. is so much lower than the rest?

Anonymous said...

to 12:37...tell me big shot... are you one of those ''competent'' people making half a million a year running a multi- billion dollar company? or do you just love to throw around numbers like most of the tinhorn louts in this site?
half million dollar salaries plus bonus and multi- billion dollar companies in mississippi are about as common as virgins in a cathouse.

Anonymous said...

Let me remember. I got a 4 or 5% raise in my SS check. That was the largest I have ever gotten. Sure wish I could do like politicians and give myself a 60% raise. But unlike them, I am not able to give myself a raise.

Anonymous said...

If they would have paid Feel like that, he wouldn’t been chasing $ with his buddy Brett.

Anonymous said...

It’s also good when the people in office don’t NEED the money because then they do anything they can do stay in office.

Squeezer said...

The AG will make almost as much as a federal prosecutor

Anonymous said...

These seem about right. But reading the moans and groans from legislators wanting a raise makes me sick. They are the least popular group in the USA.

Anonymous said...

Why is the Insurance Commissioner getting a 67% raise? Why does the Insurance Commission make almost twice the Lt. Governor? That is the office raise that really stands out.

Anonymous said...

12:33,Amen!

Anonymous said...

For the uninformed, the Lt Governor and the Speaker are both considered to be part-time jobs. True that for the past dozen years, maybe more, the Lt Governor has not treated it as such but rather worked full-time and held no other outside employment. The Speaker still practices law supposedly although not sure how much time he actually spends there lately. (Little known is that the Ag Commissioner for some strange reason also is denoted a part-time position, allowing our current commissioner to practice law in addition to wearing his white hat at the rodeo.)

I don't know why KF would suggest we ought to read these and weep. Yes, they are big percentage raises but percentages are based on the starting point. Anyone that can suggest that in today's economy the state's legal officer should draw a salary of $112k or that the other statewide officials salary should be $90k are doing nothing but bitching. And Governor $122,000? Moving in 2024 to $160,000? What do you think someone with the overall responsibility to run a multi-billion dollar operation should be paid?

Yes, it could and should be argued that we don't need three transportation commissioners or three public service commissioners. But if you aren't willing to accept that those positions should be eliminated what do you expect to get for $78,000?

Yes, you can get good people to run for these jobs that aren't doing it for the money because they have passed that stage of their life. Commissioner Chaney was retired from a successful business career before his election. Treasurer McRae certainly didn't offer himself for this position due to the enticing $90,000/year or want to keep it now because it will move to $120,000. Lt Gov Hosemann's part-time salary of $60,000 or his previous SOS salary of $90,000 wasn't the driving force for him to leave a very lucrative law partnership.

But forgotten him KF's 'read em and weep' comment is that along with these raises attempting to bring these elected officials' salaries somewhat in line with our neighbors is the move by the State Personnel Board (SEC squared) that has and will provide significantly large pay raise adjustments throughout state agencies. There are many state employees that are receiving this year raises that equal or surpass the percentage raises of these elected officials. Also, lower level elected officials received pay raises as well - District Attorneys, Supervisors, Judges, all received pay raises this year on top of the raises they received over the past dozen years while these statewide elected officials salaries have been set in stone.

Judges salaries have taken large jumps three times during the last decade (allowing of course for judge's staffs to be increased). Appropriate raises that should have been done and as allowed by a legislative action in 2012. Check them out while you 'read 'em and weep' over this action. Our 19 appellate judges all make 25% to 40% more than the Governor today and did so before receiving another raise this year. Hell, the Circuit and Chancery Judges spread throughout the state make more than the Governor and other statewide officials.

Lets not forget our favorite - school board superintendents throughout the state exceed these salaries as well. Forget the State Superintendent's ridiculous figure, but get the ones scattered throughout our 82 counties, including the one that doesn't even have a school. Are they worth more in value than the Governor, or the Attorney General?

Yes, read 'em and weep. Or just bitch. Meanwhile forget that someone has to do the job (like it or not) and whoever it is deserves to be paid.

Anonymous said...

Not satisfied with the 650 words comment they dropped 30 minutes earlier on Favre thread, @4:50 goes deep for another 600 word ego-fest on this one too! Great job!!!

Anonymous said...

Seems fair enough, although the auditor’s raise is a little perplexing. In general, this means MS’s highest elected officials will be paid about like career middle managers in the federal government. Hard to say that’s overpaid. A good candidate will still be taking a substantial pay cut versus what they can make in the private sector, but if you want qualified people to run for office, you can’t make the lifestyle hit too painful.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile regular state, county employees will continue to be paid in peanuts and promises and they will continue to have to work two or three jobs. LouAnne's folks without the title of Dr. or Nurse make less than teenage burger flippers who spit in your food. Enjoy the raise boys and girls and by all means earn it. They gave THEMSELVES a cost of living raise and left the help to be eaten by inflation.

Anonymous said...

Don't have a problem with giving them a raise. Don't have a problem with the new salary levels though I question why some offices were bumped to $120k while others were bumped to $150K.

But the size of the increases are terrible optics. OUTRAGEOUS to give a 67% increase. With each passing day the MSGOP acts more and more like Democrats.


Nah, they are acting like typical white conservatives (the MSGOP) because at least the Democrats would have given pay raises to state workers first, before giving themselves a raise.

Plenty of examples over the years where they tried, but "conservatives" would never let the bills get out of committee

Anonymous said...

Don't worry. They all ply the consultant/lobbying world day #1 after retiring from politics and then whore themselves out for the big bucks .

They are just using the low paid state job to build their rolodex for future use.

Kingfish said...

OR.......

Maybe I love the Wayans brothers and like working their stuff into my posts. Ever think of that one?

Anonymous said...

Delbert lived on Eastover Drive until a few years ago. Like many professionals he did quite well. I don't think he's in politics for the money. He's long been able to " retire" more than comfortably.

Anonymous said...

Delbert lived on Eastover Drive until a few years ago.

Nope.

Anonymous said...

LouAnne makes 700,000 a year !!! And they had to pry that out of her !!

Anonymous said...

Well now it makes complete sense why MS has so many crooked politicians... They were never paid a livable wage. Hooray for tax cuts, no?

Kingfish said...

Auditors raise is a little perplexing? Well, ideally, you'd like to have CPA's run for the job.


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