Sandra Tan
Are Erie County’s elected leaders getting paid enough? That question will once again come before the Citizen’s Salary Review Commission that will meet on Friday in what will be a monthslong process.
The reconvening of this special committee is noteworthy because when the commission last came together in 2018, it put forth recommendations that resulted in substantive pay raises for the county executive, comptroller, sheriff and county clerk. Aside from recommending one-time pay hikes, which took effect on a staggered schedule based upon elections, the commission also tied all future annual raises to the Consumer Price Index.