COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio lawmakers are debating whether to give themselves and many other elected officials a bigger pay raise than they are set to receive. The proposal comes with less than two weeks to go in the current lame duck session of the Ohio General Assembly.
Right now, elected officials are scheduled to get a 1.75% per year raise through 2028. Republican State Representative Bill Seitz (R- Cincinnati) says the proposal would raise that to 5% each year for the next four years. For the following six years, the raise would equal the rate of inflation or 3%, whichever is lower.
“We’ve had four or five years of rampant inflation,” Seitz said. “As anyone knows, prices are up between 20 and 30% over where they were pre-pandemic.”…