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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 8. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS - FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 This section provides instructions for implementing the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 salary and benefit adjustments provided in this act. All allocations, distributions, and uses of these funds are to be made in strict accordance with the provisions of this act and chapter 216, Florida Statutes. Unless otherwise specified in this section, references to an "eligible" employee refer to an employee who is, at a minimum, meeting his or her required performance standards, if applicable. If an ineligible employee achieves performance standards subsequent to the salary implementation date, but on or before the end of the fiscal year, the employee may receive the increase; however, the increase shall be effective on the date the employee becomes eligible but not retroactively. In addition, any salary increase or bonus provided under this section shall be pro-rated based on the full-time equivalency of the employee’s position. Employees classified as other personal services employees are not eligible for an increase. It is the intent of the Legislature that the minimum and maximums for each pay grade and pay band be adjusted upward commensurate with the increases provided in subsection (1) and (2). In addition, the Legislature intends that all eligible employees receive the increases specified in this section, even if the implementation of such increases results in an employee’s salary exceeding the adjusted pay grade maximum. (1) EMPLOYEE AND OFFICER COMPENSATION (a) Officer Compensation Effective July 1, 2024, the elected officers, members of commissions, and designated employees shall be paid at the annual rate listed below; however, these salaries may be reduced on a voluntary basis. Funds are provided in Specific Appropriation 2120 to increase the annual base rate of pay over the June 30, 2024, base rate of pay for the elected officers, members of commissions, and designated employees as provided in the following table. Governor.................................................. 141,400 Lieutenant Governor....................................... 135,516 Chief Financial Officer................................... 139,988 Attorney General.......................................... 139,988 Commissioner of Agriculture............................... 139,988 Supreme Court Justice..................................... 258,957 Judges - District Courts of Appeal........................ 218,939 Judges - Circuit Courts................................... 196,898 Judges - County Courts.................................... 186,034 Judges - Compensation Claims.............................. 177,160 State Attorneys........................................... 218,939 Public Defenders.......................................... 218,939 Commissioner - Public Service Commission.................. 154,994 Commissioner - Florida Gaming Control Commission.......... 154,994 Chair - Public Employees Relations Commission............. 114,793 Commissioner - Public Employees Relations Commission...... 54,423 Chair - Commission on Offender Review..................... 146,003 Commissioner - Commission on Offender Review.............. 135,188 Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels............. 140,914 None of the officers, commission members, or employees whose salaries have been fixed in this section shall receive any supplemental salary or benefits from any county or municipality. (b) Employee Compensation Effective July 1, 2024, funds are provided in Specific Appropriation 2120 to increase each eligible employee’s June 30, 2024, base rate of pay by the greater of 3.0 percent or $1,000 to provide a competitive pay adjustment. This pay adjustment shall apply to each eligible employee in the Career Service, the Selected Exempt Service, the Senior Management Service, the lottery pay plan, the judicial branch pay plan, the legislative pay plan, the pay plans administered by the Justice Administration Commission, a military employee of the Florida National Guard on full-time military duty, and a non-career service employee of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. This pay adjustment shall be made before any other adjustments authorized in subsection (2) of section 8. 468