>>State Lawmakers' Pay Raises Begin Wednesday
(Harrisburg, PA) -- Beginning today, an automatic pay raise kicks in for many Pennsylvania lawmakers. The boost for the pay of the state's rank-and-file legislators will be just under eight-thousand dollars. The total will push yearly salaries to just over 95-thousand dollars annually. Elected caucus leaders' salaries will range from nearly 109-thousand dollars to just under 149-thousand for Republican House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Republican Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman.