Union-represented state workers are receiving a step pay increase of 4.75%, despite Oregon’s $377.5 million budget shortfall.
Union-represented state workers are set to receive a step pay increase of 4.75%, despite Oregon’s $377.5 million budget shortfall.
The 4.75 percent pay raise will cost the state as much as $16 million through the end of the biennium, according to DAS spokesman Lonn Hoklin. The expense is already built into the biennial budget approved by the Oregon Legislature last session.
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