Salary grievance panel recommends county reconsider DA supplement after commissioners cut county portion

A nine-member salary grievance committee voted 8–1 on Aug. 8 to recommend that the Williamson County Commissioners Court reconsider a reduction in the county supplement for District Attorney Sean Dix after Dix and several prosecutors said the commissioners cut the county portion without adequate notice and that the change alters how his total compensation is paid and how retirement and benefits are calculated.

The committee’s recommendation will be forwarded to the full commissioners court, which has final authority over county salary supplements and the budget. County staff and at least one commissioner said the action preserved Dix’s overall, total pay while shifting a portion of the cost to state-provided salary increases enacted by recent legislation.

Why it matters: District attorneys are state officials whose base pay is set by state law, but counties may add a county-funded supplement. That structure gives counties discretion to increase total pay above the state baseline. Dix told the panel the county’s action reduced the county-funded supplement by about $27,000; county staff said the net effect was to increase Dix’s total…