Council approves $232K in employee raises
The Columbus City Council approved $232,616 in raises for employees for the Fiscal Year 2018 Budget.
Columbus Police to receive pay raises
The city council voted on Tuesday to approve a new pay scale that includes 5-percent pay raises to the base rate of every rank through captain.
Oktibbeha employees get 3-percent raise
Oktibbeha County employees will receive a 3-percent cost-of-living adjustment in Fiscal Year 2016-17 as supervisors added the annual raise to their budget Tuesday.
LCSD continues current salary scales
The Lowndes County School Board of Trustees voted Monday to continue its salary scale structure from the current school year into the 2015-2016 year.
McDonald’s joins Wal-Mart, Gap in raising wages
McDonald’s said Wednesday it is raising pay for workers at restaurants that the company owns.
More Americans are finally seeing something new: A pay raise
As the U.S. economy has steadily recovered from the Great Recession, the critical missing piece has been a painful lack of pay raises for many Americans.
Aldermen: Future raises unobtainable without austere spending
The three-person Starkville Audit and Budget Committee told city department heads not to expect across-the-board pay increases for workers.
Aldermen decline raise for city employees
Unlike their county peers, Starkville city employees will not receive a pay raise in the upcoming fiscal year.
Supes pass budget, give employee raises
Lowndes County residents will pay the same in ad valorem taxes next year that they pay now, and county employees will receive a raise in October.
Obama: ‘Revving’ economy calls for higher wages
President Barack Obama renewed his push for Congress to raise the minimum wage Monday in a buoyant accounting of the economy’s “revving” performance, delivered on behalf of Democrats opening their fall campaigns for the midterm congressional elections.
Mayor, city employee raises rescinded
Columbus Mayor Robert Smith will not get a raise and neither will any other city employee.
Budget committee split on possible employee raises
A small pay increase for Starkville employees is in limbo after the city’s budget committee recommended to only fully fund increasing insurance expenses in the upcoming fiscal year.
New salary scale will cost Lowndes County School District $1.3 million
The Lowndes County School District Business Office released details on the salary scale the board approved last week.
Lowndes school board rejects across-the-board raises
The Lowndes County School Board voted Friday to approve raises for selected district personnel. District officials did not release which employees would be getting the raises, however.
School board rewards administrators with raises
Citing high evaluations and increased workloads associated with 2015’s upcoming school consolidation, Starkville School District Board of Trustees members approved 5-percent raises for Superintendent Lewis Holloway and Assistant Superintendents Toriano Holloway and Jody Woodrum following closed-door discussions Tuesday.
Workers in key industries getting most raises
If you hope to get a raise that finally feels like one, it helps to work in the right industry.
Gunn: Teachers deserve salary increase
Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn on Monday repeated his support for an across-the-board teacher pay raise this year.
But the Republican said it will be weeks before lawmakers will know how much money is available to put into raises.
Teacher group seeks blanket raise, Bryant opposed
BILOXI — The Mississippi Association of Educators is pushing for a blanket pay raise for the state’s public school teachers, but Gov. Phil Bryant is
Mississippi’s workforce aging, numbers flat
JACKSON — One-third of Mississippi state government’s workforce will be eligible for retirement in the next five years. Deanne Mosley, executive director of the state
Supes get pay bump after county value eclipses $1B
Lowndes County’s total value has gone up. Now its supervisors’ salaries will also.
Supervisors will receive a $1,000 raise and make $45,700 a year now that the county’s total assessed value is more than $1 billion.