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Committee asks LBFC to study location-based pay for state government employees
Summary
The House State Government Committee voted to direct the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study location-based pay for state government employees, citing recruitment and retention problems at PennDOT and regional cost‑of‑living disparities.
Representative Pialey told the House State Government Committee that persistent staffing shortages and dangerous road conditions drove his push to study location‑based pay for state government employees. The committee voted to refer House Resolution 23 to the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee for study.
Committee members said the study would collect county and metropolitan cost‑of‑living data, evaluate how uniform state wages affect hiring and retention, compare different ways to implement location‑based pay, and estimate the fiscal impact of any change. Representative Pialey recounted constituents' repeated tire damage from a large pothole on Route 202 to illustrate recruitment and retention consequences at the local level, and he said PennDOT wages in the Southeast are not…
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