pay raises

Gov. Inslee's 2015-17 state biennium budget includes a call for $600 million in new taxes, to be used for pay increases for public sector state workers. He claims they haven't had a pay raise in six years. But is that false?

In the same year we saw the Legislature take nearly six months to hammer out a budget, and the state grapple with a billion-dollar-plus defecit, Gov. Jay Inslee is adding more than $100,000 to the annual budget by handing out BIG pay increases to certain agency leaders.