Guidelines for the Salary Increase for Certain State Positions

Details

*Provisions in Senate Bill 30, 88th Legislature, Regular Session provide funding in fiscal 2023 for two months of the salary increase authorized in the GAA to accelerate the effective date of the increase to July 1, 2023. There will not be an additional increase effective Sept. 1, 2023.

• Refer to Appropriations for the Salary Increase Allocation for Certain State Positions (FPP A.009) for Comptroller’s office guidance on appropriations for the salary increase.
• The appropriations may only be used for providing the salary increase for eligible employees and paying the associated employee benefit costs.

Eligibility

• The appropriations generally cover employees of state agencies, including employees of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation, all staff at the Windham School District and Texas Juvenile Justice Department, non-instructional staff at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Texas A&M University System service agencies (Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, Texas A&M Forest Service, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Texas Division of Emergency Management), and Article X agencies.
• The appropriations for a salary increase do not include the following:
  • Statewide elected officials
  • Justices and judges of the appellate and district courts
  • District attorneys
  • Criminal district attorneys
  • County attorneys performing the duties of a district attorney
  • Line-item exempt (non-classified) employees
  • Employees of institutions of higher education (except for employees of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and of a Texas A&M University System service agency)
  • Compensatory per diem of board or commission members
  • Instructional staff at the Texas School for the Deaf and the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired whose salaries are statutorily tied to the salary schedule at the Austin Independent School District
• The rider does not authorize a salary increase for individuals holding an exempt position. The salary amount for those individuals may be increased only in compliance with the GAA, Article IX, Section 3.04.
• The rider does not authorize any salary rate above the maximum rates specified in the classified salary schedules.