Sentences with phrase «percent pay raise for»

The teachers retained their solidarity, and won a 5 percent pay raise for all state public workers.

Leaders in the state Senate have offered an eight percent pay raise for teachers as they inch closer to putting together a budget.

It's unclear how the lieutenant governor arrived at an average 11 percent pay raise for teachers — he could be adding numbers together, like adding the recent 7 percent raise with an expected 4 percent average raise that could come when lawmakers pass a budget, said DPI's Price.

For teachers who are at the bottom and currently making $ 30,800, McCrory's plan would be close to a 14 percent pay raise for beginning teachers over two years.

A 3.6 percent pay raise for public school and community college employees..

The legislature has already cleared an 8 percent pay raise for teachers.

The bitter tug - of - war over Denver's performance - pay plan has ended with the teachers» union and the school district reaching a compromise agreement that includes a 3 percent pay raise for all teachers and higher starting salaries.

The bill would authorize a 2.4 percent pay raise for military personnel.

A commission is considering granting as much as a 47 percent pay raise for state lawmakers, and the proposal is generating some backlash, including from Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The proposed $ 100.8 million budget will spend millions on police and fire pensions as well as a 3 percent pay raise for city workers.

The firm also posed this hypothetical question: What would you trade a 20 percent pay raise for?

Not exact matches

«It's time to give American workers the pay raise that they've been looking for for many, many years,» Trump said in explaining his desire to slash the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current statutory rate of 35 percent.

They may be thought of as the job - hopping generation, but almost 90 percent of millennials surveyed by software firm Qualtrics would actually choose to stay in a job for the next 10 years — if they knew there was room for an annual pay raise and career mobility.

Morgan Stanley gave James Gorman the biggest raise yet among Wall Street chief executive officers for last year, boosting his pay 25 percent to $ 22.5 million.

If employees do not receive that pay raise, more than one in three (35 percent) report they will look for a new job.

Paul Solman: But he says that if, for example, inflation takes off what he'll do is raise the interest rate, right now it's only 0.25 percent, that he's paying to banks to redeposit their excess reserves with him.

Only 37 percent of millennials have ever asked for a raise, according to a recent PayScale report, despite the fact that 43 percent of those who asked received the pay increase they were looking for.

Strike organizers called for an end to the walkout Thursday after a dramatic all - night legislative session resulted in a 20 percent pay raise by 2020.

According to O'Reilly, such a tax increase could possibly raise the overall income tax rate for millionaires to 45 percent — the highest since 1986 — and that it still couldn't pay for universal health care.

In a 2014 study, the American Humane Association found that 75 percent of people surveyed stated they were very willing to pay more for humanely raised meat, dairy and eggs.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

In another high - profile ballot initiative, residents in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 must decide whether to raise their tax rate 13 percent to pay for teachers» salaries and to stave off program cuts.

Port Authority staff recommended that the agency raise the minimum wage for more than 40,000 NYC - area airport workers to $ 19 an hour by the fall of 2023 — an increase of more than 80 percent in about five years for the lowest - paid workers at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the three major airports operated by the authority.

The Cuomo appointees recommended against a pay raise until legislators agreed to pass ethics reform that would limit outside income for lawmakers to 15 percent.

Union officials said the extra 2 percent raise in 2017 is more economical than the more than $ 30 million extra it would cost for the county to pay back the lag payroll in the long run.

The Siena College poll finds that 63 percent of New Yorkers oppose a pay raise for state lawmakers, who earn a base salary of nearly $ 80,000 a year for what is technically a part - time job.

She said she would amend the state's 2 percent cap on property tax increases — «if a locality itself wants to raise taxes on itself to pay for education, I think we shouldn't make that so onerous» — and backed the Assembly's plan to raise taxes on New Yorkers reporting more than $ 5 million in income.

In February, for example, the Siena Research institute asked voters whether lawmakers should get a pay raise if they enacted ethics reforms; New York City residents said yes by a 50 percent to 48 percent margin, while only 34 percent of upstate residents agreed.)

Deutsch says the heirs to someone with a $ 10 million estate could see a 50 percent reduction in the estate taxes they would pay, if New York raises the threshold for taxation to the $ 5.25 million now in federal law.

The 33 percent raises for Chief of Staff Ron Kluesener, Town Attorney Joseph Wilson and Town Comptroller Victoria Marotta increase their base salaries from $ 109,084 to $ 145,000, according to the Jan. 2 resolution granting the pay hikes.

The United Federation of Teachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was in office.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Before jacking up truck tolls 45 percent on the New York State Thruway and raising the toll at the Tappan Zee Bridge to pay for a new bridge, how about cracking down on toll cheats?

Pay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's pPay has become a hot - button issue in Albany as the governor seeks a series of one - day furloughs for 100,000 state workers, after labor leaders refused to forgo a 4 percent raise for the state work force that was largely negotiated under Gov. Eliot Spitzer, or to delay a week's paypay.

Trading a minimum wage increase for a legislative pay raise is rated a «bad idea» by 70 percent of voters.

Ethics reform, including campaign finance law changes, in exchange for a pay raise still lacks support, with 57 percent of voters not backing that proposal.

After 16 months of tense negotiations that included a two - week strike last year, unions representing 45,000 Verizon employees announced tentative new contracts that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage.

And not surprisingly, there is widespread opposition to a pay raise for state lawmakers: 63 percent of those polled do not believe the Senate and Assembly should receive their first salary increase since 1998.

That was the same year legislators did a deal with then - GOP Gov. George Pataki that raised their base pay by 38 percent to its current level ($ 79,500) in exchange for agreeing to forgo their paychecks in the event of late budgets and the creation of charter schools in New York.

NYC Council members reportedly are quietly plotting for a massive pay raise that will bring their six - figure salaries up to a whopping $ 192,500 — a 71 percent windfall — as cops face a proposed 1 percent hike, and firefighters will only see a 2.5 percent bump this year.

There's also little desire among voters to see lawmakers receive a pay bump from their base $ 79,500, with opposition to the proposal registering at 55 percent to 42 percent (pay raises for lawmakers and cabinet officials is now before a panel that could decide on salary increases at the end of this year).

And while the budget does not increase salaries for union workers, it does include pay raises for elected officials, including Supervisor Scott Russell, whose salary will see the biggest increase — a 10 percent hike to $ 101,000.

Recycling and waste - transfer drivers who are members of the Teamsters union received midyear increases as well as a 2 percent cost - of - living raise for 2018, amounting to a 15 percent pay hike.

Members of the Transport Workers Union got a total of 19 percent in pay raises between 2009 and 2016, compared with 12 percent for the city's teachers union over the same period.

Other proposals include freezing automatic annual pay raises for elected officials and requiring exempt employees to pay 15 percent of health care costs.

A legislative committee has scheduledFive groups of unionized state workers that negotiated their pay raises with Gov. Scott Walker's administration are poised to receive the same 1 percent raise that non-union workers got in July.a meeting to vote on proposed contracts for five smaller Wisconsin unions.

Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, praised de Blasio for reaching a pension and pay raise deal with the union last year that brought nearly 80 percent of the municipal workforce under contract, calling him a «union - friendly mayor.»

A «pay bill» that enacts a 2 percent retroactive raise for members of the Public Employees Federation has gone to Cuomo's desk for signing.

When asked what he might do if a proposal for a 47 percent pay boost — which has been floated during the commission's deliberations — reached his desk, raising the yearly compensation of New York lawmakers from $ 79,500 to $ 116,900 and making them the highest paid legislators in the nation, despite the public corruption scandals that have consumed Albany, Cuomo replied:

«Senator Flanagan didn't get a pay raise, so now he wants a return to member items and pork barrel spending,» Azzopardi said in a statement, adding that 70 percent of the public opposes a pay increase for lawmakers.

The agreement, ratified by AFSCME members in a 618 - 308 vote and approved by the County Legislature on Thursday, offers raises in exchange for new employees paying 15 percent of a lower - cost health insurance plan, Canazzi said.