A key House budget panel has slowed legislation to give the state’s top jurists big pay increases after raising concerns that Superior Court judges in some parts of Georgia are already making $185,000-$200,000 a year.
The raises proposed for them could make them among the highest paid trial judges in the country, according to national salary surveys.
Judges from the state Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Superior Courts, along with district attorneys and public defenders, told a House budget panel Wednesday that they all backed legislation to give them $12,000-a-year raises.
The raise package, sponsored by a bipartisan group of leading House lawyer-legislators, would cost the state about $6.2 million a year. The measure, House Bill 279, would raise the salary of Supreme Court and Appeals Court judges by 7.1 percent and the base state pay of Superior Court judges by just under 10 percent.
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