State Employees Not Getting Raises

Indiana state employees are not getting a raise for the second consecutive year.

The budget that went into effect in July had a 90-percent reduction in the contingency fund that covers salary adjustments.

State Budget Director Chad Ranney says the executive branch’s ability to pay employees more “depends on having room within existing, appropriated budgets, not the forecast.”

Indiana is forecast to have nearly five-billion-dollars in surplus by mid-2027.