Most legislators currently earn $61,997 annually. They’d receive a 7% increase on July 1, 2025, bringing their pay to $66,411, with another 7% a year later, upping their salaries to $71,126.
Statewide executives and judges will get wage hikes too, though the increases settled on by the Washington Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials are not quite as hefty.
Washington’s nine executives — governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state auditor, superintendent of public instruction, insurance commissioner, treasurer and commissioner of public lands — would get a 3% cost of living adjustment next July and another 2% on July 1, 2026. Judges, including state Supreme Court justices,
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