Pay Raise

An enormous pay raise for Louisiana legislators has cleared its first hurdle in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

BATON ROUGE, La. (KPEL News) - A term limited lawmaker from Gretna has pre-filed a bill for the upcoming Louisiana Legislative Session that would give his fellow state lawmakers a massive pay raise. Representative Joseph Marino believes state lawmakers are being paid too little currently and that they are due a raise, which was last given to the elected position in 1980...

Walmart is making big plans to invest in its employees.

The University of Louisiana System Board of Governors Athletic Board committee will vote on Thursday on a proposed contract extension for the highly successful Napier.

Stine and Lowe's have given temporary raises to their employees to support them during the coronavirus pandemic.

Currently, the maximum raise is ten percent over a four-year term.

Chief Toby Aguillard joined Carol Ross on the Ross Report.

For the first time in a while, Louisiana's colleges escaped budget cuts, so the biggest university in the state is giving faculty and staff pay raises averaging 3 percent.

A 2% pay hike was approved in this year’s legislative session.

Lafayette Parish School System Superintendent Dr. Pat Cooper liked the idea of giving teachers a $1,000 pay increase, but he said more needs to be done for support personnel as well.

Faculty and staff at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will receive a pay increase for the first time in six years.

In July, the school board and the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce agreed to create the task force to map out the needs and related financing for the schools after a 31-mill property tax was soundly defeated.

Parish President Michel Claudet said the raises aim to adjust for the increase in the cost of living.

Chief Financial Office Lorrie Toups says the cost of the pay raise would be $2.8 million a year.

Some 35 employees of Jefferson Davis Parish will be getting a pay raise after a vote of police jurors this week. Police Jury finance committee chairman John Marceaux says the 3 percent pay raise for more than two dozen parish employees was unanimously approved by police jury members Wednesday...

The state Judicial Compensation Commission has recommended a multi-year pay raise plan for Louisiana's judges.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Directors in the Rapides Parish School District will get paid as much as high school principals under a new salary schedule. The Town Talk reports the Rapides Parish School Board approved the schedule last week, and it went into effect Aug...

HOUMA, La. (AP) — The Terrebonne Parish School Board has dropped a proposal to give Superintendent Philip Martin a pay raise. The Courier reports Board President L.P. Bordelon said Martin asked the board to pull the motion Tuesday night...

PINEVILLE, La. (AP) — Pineville city employees will be getting a 2 percent raise. The Pineville City Council unanimously approved Mayor Clarence Fields' proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 during a special meeting on Thursday. The new year begins July 1...