Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday vetoed a 5 percent pay raise for state judges and district attorneys. Raising judges’ pay had been one of the State Bar of Georgia’s top legislative priorities.
Perdue, however, signed a $21.1 billion budget for the state’s upcoming fiscal year, which includes a separate 2.5 percent cost-of-living increase for all state employees, including judges and prosecutors. With the COLA increase, which takes effect Jan. 1, Supreme Court justices’ salaries will rise to $171,390, Court of Appeals judges’ salaries to $170,341 and Superior Court judges’ base pay to $123,258.
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