State Agencies Bulletin No. 1705

Subject
January 1, 2019 Salary Increases for Members of the Legislature and Certain Elected Officials
Date Issued
December 21, 2018

Purpose

To provide agencies with instructions for submitting the January 1, 2019 salary increases for members of the Legislature, the Comptroller, and the Attorney General

Affected Employees

Members of the New York State Legislature and Statewide Elected Officials in the following departments:

  • 04210 NYS Senate Members
  • 04310 NYS Senate Special Allowance
  • 04220 NYS Assembly Members
  • 04320 NYS Assembly Special Allowance
  • 02009 NYS Comptroller
  • 03009 Office of the Attorney General

Background

Pursuant to the recommendations of the Committee on Legislative and Executive Compensation established by Chapter 59 of the Laws of 2018, effective January 1, 2019, the salaries of the Attorney General and Comptroller are increased to $190,000, the member salaries of the Legislature are increased to $110,000, and the payment of all stipends in Legislative Law Section 5-a must end except for the following positions:

Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly

Majority Leader of the Assembly

Speaker Pro Tempore of the Assembly

Chair of the Ways and Means Committee

Chair of the Codes Committee

Minority Leader

Minority Leader Pro Tempore

Ranking Member Ways and Means Committee

Ranking Member Codes Committee

Senate

Temporary President

Deputy Majority Leader

Chair of the Finance Committee

Minority Leader

Deputy Minority Leader

Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee

The stipends for the Assembly and Senate positions listed above shall remain unchanged from current levels.

Note: The Committee Report authorizes salary increases for the Executive Law Section 169 Commissioners. Instructions for processing these increases will be provided in a separate Payroll Bulletin.

Effective Date(s)

Administration Pay Period 20C, paychecks dated 01/09/2019

Agency Actions

Salary Increase for Attorney General and Comptroller- Pay Basis Code CAL

To ensure that the above elected officials receive their new statutory salary in calendar year 2019, agencies must submit a Pay Change on the Job Action Requests page using the Reason Code SIC (Salary Increase), the effective date of 01/01/2019, and the salary of $190,000.

Salary Increase for Senate and Assembly- Pay Basis Code LEG

To ensure that Members of the Legislature receive their new statutory salary for calendar year 2019, agencies must submit a Pay Change on the Job Action Requests page using the Reason Code SIC (Salary Increase), the effective date of 12/27/2018 (beginning of the payroll period), and the salary of $110,000.

Pay Change transactions for New Members must also be submitted using the new salary of $110,000.

Ending Legislative Special Allowances

For all allowances other than those cited above, agencies must submit a Term row on the Member’s Special Allowance Job Data record in PayServ effective 12/27/2018.

Questions

Questions regarding this bulletin should be directed to the Payroll Earnings mailbox.