Pay Bump: State Senate Employees To See Increase
Oklahoma Senate employees get more than $217,000 in raises
by Rick Green
Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman has given $217,655 in pay raises to Senate employees.
A total of 90 employees, including executive assistants to Oklahoma senators, will get performance-based increases this month averaging 4 percent.
The biggest raise was 7 percent; the lowest was 1 percent.
The money for the raises comes from cost savings. The Senate had 139 employees in 2008 and has 108 now.
“We are choosing to use the savings achieved through attrition and efficiencies to provide a number of our hard-working employees with reasonable raises,” said Bingman, R-Sapulpa.