The news release is here:
For Release: Immediate Contact: Teri Wright
Date: 1/24/13
360-725-5669
Washington State Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials Accepts Public Comments
The Washington State Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials will accept public comments regarding statewide elected official’s salaries at:
The Phoenix Inn Suites
415 Capitol Way N
Olympia, WA 98501
ON January 30, 2013, 9:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
AND January 31, 2013, 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
If you cannot attend this meeting, please send your comments to TWright@salaries.wa.gov or by mail to:
WCCSEO
PO Box 43120
Olympia, WA 98504-3120
Created by voter initiative in 1986, the Commission sets the salaries of the elected officials in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of state government. Prior to its creation, those salaries were set by the Legislature. Please visit www.salaries.wa.gov for more information.
A schedule of salaries for elected officials is here. Gov. Jay Inslee, for example, is highest paid among elected state officials, earning $166,891 under the commission’s salary schedule set in 2011. Supreme Court justices were just behind that at $164,221.
