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Commissioners to get pay increase

Cheyenne County Commissioners will receive a 20 percent pay increase for the 2017-18 budget year.

The combined salary for all three officials in 2016 was $63,798.12, and will increase to an estimated $80,000 for the new budget year.

“The board has to set official salary by January of the election year so that people know what they’re going to pay their 1 percent filing fee on,” Beth Fiegenschuh, county clerk, said.

Resolution 2015-36, signed December 2015, established salaries for the commissioners, as well as a 3 percent cost-of-living increase added each year.

“At that time, the board raised the salaries and when you figure salaries, since our budget year begins in July, to June, and the raises are effective January to December, you have to budget one half of the year at the current salary and one half of the year at the new salary,” Fiegenschuh explained.

The increase for the 2017-18 budget is so high because it includes the salary increases for both budget years.

“Last year they had one half of the year of the old salary, before the filing salary, and one half of the year that included the increase,” Fiegenschuh said. “This year, it’s one half of the salary that they included in the increase and one half of the increase is all in this one year, when before it had been half and half.”

She added, “That’s why it looks like the increase was this year, but the increase began in 2015, which we’re still six months behind.”

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