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| | Westchester board votes 14% pay hike (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Westchester County lawmakers put together just enough votes yesterday to raise their base pay 14.3 percent, from $43,060 to $49,200 annually. |
 | | The Board of Legislators also voted 10-4, minutes later, to approve raises for the county executive, Westchester Community College president, and scores of managers across government, including department commissioners, lawyers in the district attorney's office and college staff. |
 | | Board Chairman William Ryan, D-White Plains, said the package passed because lawmakers had come up with a "reasonable" figure they could justify as "appropriate for what the job is today." The pay level was recommended by a 2002 study committee; it also amounted to a roughly 2.5 percent annual increase, compounded, over the six-year span. |
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