State Government

Pay Act boosts state salaries – guv to earn $243,520

By on • ( 10 Comments )
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

By Sam Douglass

Information for In Committee news reports are sourced from GoldenDomeVt.com and the General Assembly website. Generative AI has not been used in the writing of this story. 

Salary increases for Vermont’s statewide elected officials are moving forward as part of a broader biennial bill that adjusts state employee wages based on collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). Statewide officers—including the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general—are included alongside other state employees in receiving wage increases tied to those agreements. 

The biennial legislation, also known as the Pay Act, was passed unanimously out of the House Committee on Government Operations on Friday. The committee-approved version sets in law a four percent and three percent wage increase for state employees and state troopers for fiscal years 2027 and 2028, respectively. This increase is in addition to a 1.9 percent increase statewide, marking a total of 5.9 percent in FY2027 and 4.9 percent in FY2028. Under the CBA, Vermont’s elected statewide officers are set to receive the same increases. 

Gov. Phil Scott, Treasurer Mike Pieciak, Attorney General Charity Clark

According to Business Insider, the Governor of Vermont receives the fourth highest salary in the nation behind New York, Pennsylvania, and California. As of July 12, 2026, the Governor’s salary will be increased to $243,520 and the Lieutenant Governor’s salary will be raised to $103,369. 

The Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Auditor receive the same wage, which will rise to $154,413 on July 12, 2026. The Attorney General’s salary is set to rise to $184,894. 

Below are the salaries of all state employees earning $180,000 or more as of February 25, 2026. Source: State of Vermont:

Bundock,Elizabeth AChief Medical ExaminerHealthClassified332,571.20
McCubbin,Kathleen R.Deputy Chief Medical ExaminerHealthClassified266,385.60
Rapaport,Michael EMedicaid Medical DirectorVermont Health AccessExempt255,756.80
Amoresano,Elaine RDeputy Chief Medical ExaminerHealthClassified251,596.80
Saroyan,John MeranDirector, Blueprint for HealthVermont Health AccessExempt235,331.20
Scott,Philip BGovernorExecutive OfficeExempt226,012.80
Reiber,Paul LChief JusticeJudiciaryExempt225,576.00
Corsones,Therese MState Court AdministratorJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Drescher,MichaelAssociate JusticeJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Eaton Jr.,Harold EAssociate JusticeJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Nolan,ChristinaAssociate JusticeJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Waples,NancyAssociate JusticeJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Zonay,Thomas AChief Superior JudgeJudiciaryExempt215,280.00
Shapiro,WendyChief Executive OfficerMental HealthExempt213,096.00
Arms,Alison SSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Badgewick,BonnieSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Barra,David ASuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Barrett,Jennifer LSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Battles,BenjaminSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Burke,Alexander NSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Corbett IV,Henry DSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Corsones,Cortland TSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
DiSano,DanaSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Doherty,TimothySuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Fenster,David RSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Foster,OwenChair, Green Mtn Care BoardGreen Mountain Care BoardExempt204,651.20
Gallagher,KateSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Gray,Heather JSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Griffin,Kevin WSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Harris,Michael JSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Jiron,JustinSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Kainen,Michael RSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Kalfus,Howard ASuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Katims,Robert WSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Malone,Rachel MSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Mann,ElizabethSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
McDonald-Cady,KerrySuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
McLean,Joseph SEnvironmental JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
McManus,Susan ASuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Mcnamara,EdPublic Utility Comm ChairPublic Utility CommissionExempt204,651.20
Morrissey,Mary LSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Novotny,ElizabethSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Owyang,Colin GeorgeSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Pacht,John LSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Richardson,Daniel PSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Rowntree,Laura CSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Schoonover,KirstinSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Shafritz,MeganSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Spero,NavahSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Thibault,RorySuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Tomasi,Timothy BSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Treadwell,John RSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Valente,John WSuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Walsh,Thomas GEnvironmental JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Warren,Lisa ASuperior JudgeJudiciaryExempt204,651.20
Hildebrant,RickCommissionerHealthExempt197,516.80
Henry,EricPrincipal AssistantVermont Pension Investment ComExempt196,060.80
Morehouse,Tanya ElizabethChief AuditorAuditor of Accounts’ OfficeClassified184,995.20
Birmingham,Matthew TColonel, VSPPublic SafetyExempt184,360.80
Clark,SarahAgency SecretaryAdministration AgencyExempt182,083.20
Farnham Jr.,DouglasChief Recovery OfficerAdministration AgencyExempt182,083.20
Flynn,JosephAgency SecretaryTransportation AgencyExempt182,083.20
Gibbs,Jason GChief of StaffExecutive OfficeExempt182,083.20
Kurrle,Lindsay HAgency SecretaryCommerce & Community Dev AgencExempt182,083.20
Samuelson,Jenney LAgency SecretaryHuman Services AgencyExempt182,083.20
Reilly-Hughes,DeniseAgency SecretaryDigital Services AgencyExempt181,729.60
Saunders,ZoieAgency SecretaryEducation AgencyExempt181,729.60
Knight,Gregory CAdjutant GeneralMilitaryExempt181,688.00
Moore,Julia SAgency SecretaryNatural Resources AgencyExempt181,688.00
Tebbetts,Anson BAgency SecretaryAgriculture, Food & Mrkts AgenExempt181,688.00
Kennedy,Michael EBar CounselJudiciaryExempt180,003.20

Discover more from Vermont Daily Chronicle

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Categories: State Government

10 replies »

  1. Guess working for the devil, whoops, government is a pretty lucrative proposition! Wish I had the ability to do a mediocre job, and vote to give myself a raise. 4th highest state paid Governor? What is Scott doing that is so special? Man this pisses me off, as it should every Vermonter.

    Reply

    • You know the old saying, Those who can, do. Those that can’t, become bureaucrats/politician

  2. They could give everyone some property tax relief if they refused to take a raise this year. Bring yourselves down to our level, where an extra $100 left at the end of the month from Social Security, is something special. Retirees got 2.8% raise this year. WOW!!!

    Reply

  3. Where’s my raise?… people that contribute to your salary would like know. Montpelier has no shame.

    Reply

  4. Retirees got only fifty percent of the increase, and the other went to Medicare. Wait until the gas prices go up and see how much tax that will be required to fund this crime operation.

    Reply

    • Just think, gas prices may actually reach the ‘ideal’ level the Democrats have proposed for years since the idea of their ‘floating tax’ to keep the minimum per gallon price for Regular at $4.00 a gallon regardless of the price of oil, they should be happy

  5. Here we have the summary of what’s wrong in Vermont — government destroying the economy while rewarding itself for the act.

    “Collective bargaining” is also what permits teachers and superintendents to receive steady raises and few firings despite utter failure to serve the students (who are not unionized). Vermont has lost nearly 30% of its student body in recent decades, but it hasn’t lost a single school superintendent, and hires yet more teachers and aids while test scores drop. The state’s progressive bureaucrats continue to fail upwards, spending ever more money to achieve ever more “inequitable” results. It will teeter along until it kills the host.

    Reply

    • Absolutely.

      The rico is amazing. Plan a demic, experiment with a known carcinogenic intervention, coerce and demand its acceptance, crash the economy, send it all to the deep elite, raise taxes while inflating the money supply, resulting in a hidden increase of taxes what 50%? +/-, and go along with treason on multiple levels, a war on behalf of another country that collapses our economy, and VIOLA, you have conditions to roll out the control grid gulag. Which according to these, the state has no authority to refuse. Let’s apply the constitution shall we? They certainly will not.

  6. PUBLIC NOTICE. Looks like we have a problem in the St. Albans City water department with their new water meters. Bills coming out show a much larger use in gallons that are being used. We shut down our water system and looked for leaks and found none. During the shut down i checked the meter and it showed gallons being used. Now if you have this problem, you may want to call St. Albans City.

    Reply

  7. I’ve got an idea where the SOV should start cutting the budget . Guess the first place I’d start . How about cutting the salary of everybody on this list by 10% for a start . Next, How is it that a doctor who’s patients are allready dead probably makes more $$$ than the ones that actually save lives ? (The average salary for a physician is $248,361 per year in Vermont. 50 salaries taken from job postings on Indeed in the past 36 months (updated March 13, 2026).

    Reply

All topics and opinions welcome! No mocking or personal criticism of other commenters. No profanity, explicitly racist or sexist language allowed. Real, full names are now required. All comments without real full names will be unapproved or trashed.