Some state agency chiefs get hefty raises
The Legislature gave most state employees a 3 percent pay raise over the next two years, but top state agency executives got much larger pay hikes — some that are much more than many of their employees make in annual take-home pay.
Criminal justice director Brad Livingston soon will be making $260,000, up more than $73,000 from his current salary — a nearly 40 percent increase.
That’s more than the chiefs of some smaller state agencies are paid in a year, and Livingston will be paid as much as Health and Human Services Commissioner Kyle Janek. Janek is getting a $35,000 increase, with his pay rising from $225,000 to $260,000.
Only one state executive got a larger pay increase than Livingston: Pay for the chief scientific officer of the troubled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas will jump from $212,000 to $540,000 a year.
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[font color=green]The cronies are rewarded well.[/font]
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