The next batch of Maryland lawmakers should get a raise, a salary review commission concluded.
The General Assembly Compensation Commission voted unanimously Friday to recommend an increase of about $6,306 to state lawmakers’ salaries during the next term, although some panelists said they wanted that figure to be higher.
The proposed increases would be 4% in 2023 and 2024 and 2% in 2025 and 2026 and would bring lawmakers’ salaries up to $56,636 in the fourth year from the current $50,330, Simon Powell of the Department of Legislative Services said.
That amounts to a total increase of more than 12%. The House speaker and Senate president would also see the same salary increase under the commission’s proposal, bringing their pay from the current $65,371 to more than $73,500.
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