Cabinet members give up pay hikes
Gov. Jim Doyle's cabinet secretaries will forgo a scheduled 2 percent pay increase scheduled to go into effect this summer.
Administration Secretary Mike Morgan wrote in a letter to the secretaries yesterday that Doyle had asked him to formally direct them to give up the pay hike. The cabinet met to discuss the issue yesterday.
"We have all agreed to take this step because, as leaders of this Administration, we need to send a message to the working families in our state who have been hit hard by the national economic recession," Morgan wrote.
Doyle returned a portion of his salary each quarter during his first term. He received a pay increase after his second term began in 2007, and his salary won't go up during the current term, his office said.
See the letter here.
