Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases

[Modbert]

Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases :: FITSNews

With her state facing an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley handed out huge salary increases to top gubernatorial staffers on her first full day in office. She also doled out big salaries to newly-created positions within the governor’s office.

Paying attention, Tea Partiers?

Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year – or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.

Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.
Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – Trey Walker – will be paid $122,775 a year. That’s a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.

And the list goes on.

Lawmakers appropriated $1.8 million to the governor’s office for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2010. It is unclear exactly how much of that money has been spent, although Haley has committed to paying 17 people a total of $1.2 million over the next year.

Whereas Sanford’s office had eight employees making $50,000 a year or more, Haley’s office has twelve – and all of them are being paid more than their predecessors.

For the times they are a-changin'.

 

[007]

Have her recalled.

 

[JScott]

Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases :: FITSNews

With her state facing an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley handed out huge salary increases to top gubernatorial staffers on her first full day in office. She also doled out big salaries to newly-created positions within the governor’s office.

Paying attention, Tea Partiers?

Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year – or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.

Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.
Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – Trey Walker – will be paid $122,775 a year. That’s a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.

And the list goes on.

Lawmakers appropriated $1.8 million to the governor’s office for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2010. It is unclear exactly how much of that money has been spent, although Haley has committed to paying 17 people a total of $1.2 million over the next year.

Whereas Sanford’s office had eight employees making $50,000 a year or more, Haley’s office has twelve – and all of them are being paid more than their predecessors.

For the times they are a-changin'.

No surprise to me. Same as the last boss.

 

[uscitizen]

Ahh the best government money can buy.

I think I mentioned last night about waiting for the TP'ers to start falling from grace.

 

[DiveCon]

Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases :: FITSNews

With her state facing an estimated $1 billion budget shortfall, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley handed out huge salary increases to top gubernatorial staffers on her first full day in office. She also doled out big salaries to newly-created positions within the governor’s office.

Paying attention, Tea Partiers?

Haley started things off by giving her new chief of staff, Tim Pearson, a 27.5 percent pay raise. Pearson will make $125,000 a year – or $27,000 more than Scott English made while serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Mark Sanford.

Pearson will also have a full-time assistant who makes $60,000 a year.
Haley’s deputy chief of staff for communications and legislative affairs – Trey Walker – will be paid $122,775 a year. That’s a 42.3 percent increase over the second-highest paid staffer in the Sanford administration.

And the list goes on.

Lawmakers appropriated $1.8 million to the governor’s office for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2010. It is unclear exactly how much of that money has been spent, although Haley has committed to paying 17 people a total of $1.2 million over the next year.

Whereas Sanford’s office had eight employees making $50,000 a year or more, Haley’s office has twelve – and all of them are being paid more than their predecessors.

For the times they are a-changin'.

 

[uscitizen]

Tune Beck in I am sure he is ragging on this right now

 

[DiveCon]

Tune Beck in I am sure he is ragging on this right now

you really think he reads here to know about it?

 

[Oddball]

Color me unsurprised.

And some of y'all wonder how guys like me get so jaded...

 

[uscitizen]

Tune Beck in I am sure he is ragging on this right now

you really think he reads here to know about it?

Huh? How did i give that implication?

 

[Political Junky]

A fine example of a Conservative cutting costs.

 

[boedicca]

Apparently, she's spending less than her predecessor.

Governor Nikki Haley is drawing some criticism for offering higher salaries for staff members than her predecessor.

Her total staff budget of $1.07 million is less than former Gov. Sanford's last staff budget, but included fewer employees.

Former Sanford communications director Chris Drummond says Haley may find she is under-staffed.

"There's a lot more work involved in the executive branch and I kind of wonder how exactly all of that is going to get done at the same level that Governor Sanford asked us as staffers," says Drummond.

He thinks Haley offers a valid explanation that she will expect more from less people but anticipates down the line she may wish she spread out the money to more people.

"Do you hit-up that employee up and say "hey you're going to have to take a pay cut, we're hiring somebody else?" questions Drummond.

Gov. Haley's favors smaller staff with increased salaries | WCBD-TV 2


Sanford had a staff of more than 20. Haley claims she will limit hers to 16 and not borrow staff from other agencies to conceal how much is really being spent.

During the announcement of these appointees Haley pointed out she will work with a staff of 16, a smaller staff than that of Sanford's which kept more than 20 employees on board.

Haley also says she will no longer borrow staff from other agencies. That practice cut governors' costs in the past.

http://www.midlandsconnect.com/news/story.aspx?id=567031


From personal experience, I'd also prefer a smaller team of higher caliber people to a bigger one composed of lightweights.

 

[DiveCon]

Tune Beck in I am sure he is ragging on this right now

you really think he reads here to know about it?

Huh? How did i give that implication?

well, if you follow the link in the OP, and then follow the link from that blog to the actual AP story, things in the OP are not exactly as they were in the original story
but this is still a bad deal

 

[uscitizen]

A fine example of a Conservative cutting costs.

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

 

[Political Junky]

A fine example of a Conservative cutting costs.

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

Ohhh Ok.

 

[DiveCon]

A fine example of a Conservative cutting costs.

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

actually, her total staff budget is less than the previous Gov

 

[Greenbeard]

Haley Approves Huge Salary Increases :: FITSNews

At least John Kasich had the decency to slash the pay of his administrative assistants to help offset the costs of the huge pay raises he's giving his top staffers.

 

[uscitizen]

A fine example of a Conservative cutting costs.

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

actually, her total staff budget is less than the previous Gov

So far?

Just curious though where did she cut to make up for the increased salaries of the select few?
and are those select few TP campagners?

 

[DiveCon]

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

actually, her total staff budget is less than the previous Gov

So far?

Just curious though where did she cut to make up for the increased salaries of the select few?
and are those select few TP campagners?

dont know
i am not defending her in this

 

[Modbert]

I don't want to say I told you so, but...

 

[boedicca]

Ohh this is totally out of context, she will cut school funding to make up the difference.

actually, her total staff budget is less than the previous Gov

So far?

Just curious though where did she cut to make up for the increased salaries of the select few?
and are those select few TP campagners?

I'd like to know the answer to this:

Do these people get huge pension benefits or are they normal employees with normal benefits?

If the latter, then their all in cost for the type of work they are doing is not outrageous, and then will not be a burden to SC taxpayers after Haley leaves office.