| rdfs:comment | - Senators Vincent Hughes and Joseph Scarnati have seen their salaries soar to $106,986, or 54 percent - a far bigger percentage boost than any other legislator gets. Under a little-noticed provision, the pay-raise law gives Senate deputy whips - new positions now held by Hughes and Scarnati - the same pay as those in certain other long-standing leadership posts. Their pay rose so sharply because, unlike other ranking members, they had been collecting the base legislative pay of $69,648 before the new law.
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| abstract | - Senators Vincent Hughes and Joseph Scarnati have seen their salaries soar to $106,986, or 54 percent - a far bigger percentage boost than any other legislator gets. Under a little-noticed provision, the pay-raise law gives Senate deputy whips - new positions now held by Hughes and Scarnati - the same pay as those in certain other long-standing leadership posts. Their pay rose so sharply because, unlike other ranking members, they had been collecting the base legislative pay of $69,648 before the new law. Senate Republicans had no such position until the pay raise. Scarnati was appointed several weeks after the raises became law. (Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3, 2005.)
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