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Vanderburgh County Council approves 2026 budget, 3% pay increase for county employees
Summary
The Vanderburgh County Council approved the 2026 budget package, a 3% across-the-board salary increase for full-time county employees and a $21 million health-insurance appropriation, and made multiple departmental appropriations and transfers during its budget hearing.
The Vanderburgh County Council approved the county'wide 2026 budget and a salary ordinance that gives a 3% pay increase to all full-time county employees and adjusts FICA and PERF accordingly.
The move was part of a wider package the council adopted during its budget hearing, which included department-level appropriations, a health-insurance budget and direction to let the Department of Local Government Finance set the official county tax rate after its review. "These numbers represent the employer share of the health insurance for county employees," Finance Committee chair James said…
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