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In his end-of-year video, Shapiro proudly talks up success, highlighting that Pennsylvania is now ranked among the best states to live in.<\/p>\n
That isn\u2019t the only area in which Pennsylvania ranks highly. In the new year, Pennsylvania will be ranked number one in the nation for how much it pays its governor.<\/p>\n
Shapiro\u2019s salary is set to rise from more than $245,000 a year to just under $254,000 a year when the ball drops on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have any objective basis to say whether Shapiro\u2019s salary is too high or too low,\u201d said Tim Potts, former spokesperson for House Democrats. \u201cI mean, it would be worth somebody like the National Governors Association doing a study and making recommendations on how much governors should be paid based on, you know, the conditions in their states.\u201d<\/p>\n
Potts was there in 1995 when lawmakers passed a bill to automatically increase elected officials\u2019 salaries and tie them to the consumer price index. It\u2019s a 3.3% bump this year.<\/p>\n
In addition to Shapiro, the lieutenant governor will receive $7,000 more, and all three row officers will receive $5,000 raises.<\/p>\n
All cabinet secretaries are getting raises, but they are not paid equally. Agriculture\u2019s Russ Redding and four others, considered small agency heads, will get $182,785.<\/p>\n
The State Police commissioner and five others who lead what are called medium agencies will receive just under $193,000.<\/p>\n
Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll and six other large-agency heads will exceed $200,000.<\/p>\n
Potts argues that a system where elected officials\u2019 salaries are tied to median incomes in Pennsylvania would be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the workers do better, they do better,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the workers do worse, they do worse. What is wrong with that?\u201d<\/p>\n
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