Top R.I. office-holders to get pay raises
By law, salaries paid to five elected leaders are boosted on Jan. 1 every four years
PROVIDENCE — The salaries paid to Rhode Island's five top state officers — including Gov. Gina Raimondo — are going up by 4.34 percent.
By law, the salaries paid to the governor and other general officers are only allowed to go up once every four years, and when they do, they reflect the rise in the Consumer Price Index for the Northeast region for the previous four years.
After they are sworn in on Jan. 1, the annual salary paid to the governor is going from $139,695 a year to $145,755; and new Attorney General Peter Neronha, from $124,991 to $130,413.
At the same time, the salaries paid to Lt. Gov. Dan McKee, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, and Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea are rising from $117,637 a year to $122,740, according to information provided by Brenna McCabe, public information officer at the Department of Administration.
State law says the salaries paid to the state's five general officers shall "be adjusted at the beginning of each succeeding term by the total percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) published by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Northeast Region for the four previous fiscal years, but in any event not to exceed twelve percent."