Are you getting a 3.4% raise for your job in 2025?
Pennsylvania public officials are.
Salaries for the state officials will increase by 3.4 percent to reflect the annual cost of living increase for urban residents in the mid-Atlantic region, including Pennsylvania, under provisions of a 1995 state compensation law.
Gov. Josh Shapiro is the second-highest paid chief executive among the nation’s governors at $245,760. Only New York’s Kathy Hochul receives a higher salary, north of $250,000.
Position
Governor – $245,760
Lt. Governor – $206,436
Row Officers (State Treasurer, Auditor General, Attorney General) – $204,471
Large Agency Heads (Education, DEP, Health, Labor and Industry, HHS, Transportation, Corrections) – $196,607
Medium Agency Heads (Aging, DCED, General Services, Revenue, State Police Commissioner, CNR) – $186,777
Small Agency Heads (Agriculture, Banking & Securities, Commonwealth, Insurance Commissioner, Drug and Alcohol Programs) – $176,946
Other Positions
- Liquor Control Board – $99,874 (chair), $95,941 (member)
- Civil Service Commission – $112,382 (chair), $108,060 (member)
- State Tax Equalization Board – $34,407 (chair), $31,949 (member)
- Milk Marketing Board – $31,949 (chair), $30,720 (member)
- Securities Commission – $53,755 (chair), $49,043 (member)
- Athletic Commission – $25,808 (chair), $24,574 (member)
- Board of Pardons – $22,608 (member)
- Public Utility Commission – $189,277 (chair), $186,777 (member)
- Environmental Hearing Board – $189,277 (chair), $186,777 (member)
- Board of Claims – $181,516 (chair), $171,959 (member)
data compiled from Pennsylvania Bulletin, December 14, 2024
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The Board of Pardons is responsible for deciding who gets to have their application considered by the Governor. There are thousands of Pennsylvanians whose convictions were for possession of drugs, or arose from addiction, who are now barred for life from a great many jobs that we as a society need doing – home care, child care, elder care, jobs at schools – and prejudice keeps them from others. The number of pardon applications from people who have turned their lives around has gone from just over 400 per year statewide to now over 2,000. Paying the five members of the Board of Pardons less than the members of the Athletic Commission and the Milk Marketing Board – and less than half of what we pay the members of the Liquor Control Board – is proof that the importance of their work is not appreciated. They now meet only three times a year, and it is taking six years for applicants to get through the system. The BOP’s pay should at least be doubled, so they will double their output, benefitting the applicants, their families and their communities. Let’s help Pennsylvanians get back to work at their highest and best levels!