When it came to extra money in the state paycheck this month, most of the Connecticut news coverage related to the 21 Board of Regents employees who received illegal pay raises.
However, although state employees are going another year without any pay raise, longevity payments were made as part of the Malloy-SEBAC State Employee Agreement.
Among the recipients were thirteen (13) of Malloy’s commissioners and deputy commissioners. In two cases, commissioners collected longevity payments of $5,600. Remember that these longevity checks are issued twice a year, so those two commissioners actually received $11,200, this year, in addition to six figure incomes. The average longevity payment for the thirteen commissioners and deputy commissioners was $3,500 this month.
To those that complain about the state employee unions, note that there were 163 non-