Time for a PEON Revolt!
It just shows how stupid elected officials think we really are!!
My view will be unpopular on this and I live in Oklahoma, so my taxes go to pay their salaries.
The raises are large, but the amounts being paid before the raises seem below market to me, even in Oklahoma where cost of living is lower than most.
It’s not like these employees are making $ 500,000 a year such as the frauds in CA were doing. The salaries paid after the raises don’t seem unreasonable if I where to hire people to do similar work in the private sector.
These bureaucratic idiots may just be living in the wrong state. They thought Oklahoma would react like the zombie Californians do.
Rise up, Oklahoma and demand these obscene raises be cancelled!
I see your point, and as the head of large agencies, employing massive payrolls, with tremendous responsibilities, their new salaries are well within competitive guidelines, comparable to those of equal status both inside and out of government..
However, to do the deed, of raising them without a public dialogue, and in a so called cloakroom deal, smacks of business as usual, in this political climate.. She, and the leadership, surely needs to explain themselves, in the most public way..
The only defense I can see, is that it doesn’t appear the raises are a singular political payback, as there is an across the board standardization, and may have been a well planned, coordinated method, to bring the Oklahoma State scale, up to par with national norms.. Not that, that would excuse the secrecy, if it wasn’t well published..
OK and TX are not as “conservative” as their national image. There are plenty of liberals, particularly in Houston and Austin, Texas.
Bureaucrats need to keep ahead of the inflation that ain’t happening...
Hopefully those state employees, lower level, who’ve been paying into the state retirement fund, will have a nice retirement package when they reach “that” age, unlike some states who’ve run out of retirement money.