{"id":168885,"date":"2019-04-04T07:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168885"},"modified":"2019-04-04T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:15:43","slug":"state-employee-wage-raise-level-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168885","title":{"rendered":"State employee wage raise level discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Republican-led appropriations committees have agreed on the level of state employee raises for the next two-year budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Budget writers say employees should expect a 2 percent raise in the first year, with a minimum of $120 monthly and a maximum of $200.<\/p>\n<p>A 2.5 percent increase is proposed in the second year of the budget cycle. The increase is expected to cost about $84.4 million in the 2019-21 biennium<\/p>\n<p>Employees did not receive a pay increase in the current budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Doug Burgum had proposed 4 percent raises in the first year of the budget cycle and 2 percent in the second, with a potential for an additional 2 percent if agencies meet efficiency goals.<\/p>\n<p>Workers also will continue to get fully paid health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Republican-led appropriations committees have agreed on the level of state employee raises for the next two-year budget cycle. Budget writers say employees should expect a 2 percent raise in the first year, with a minimum of $120 monthly and a maximum of $200. A 2.5 percent increase is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168899,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168885\/revisions\/168899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}