MARYLAND JUDICIARY | SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL COMPENSATION
Recommendations
In view of the above findings, the Committee respectfully urges the Judicial Compensation Commission to consider the recommendation of a significant salary increase for each classification of judge to be effective July 1, 2022. In order to maintain the current gaps in salaries between classifications, the Committee recommends that any salary increase be the same dollar amount for each judicial classification. An across-the-board percentage increase would serve only to widen the gap between each classification, which the Committee does not recommend. The Committee also asks that any proposed salary increase be implemented in total on July 1, 2022, rather than incrementally over several years. Incremental increases would further delay the necessary immediate correction to judicial salaries, causing salaries to continue to lag behind the market. It also would diminish the positive effects of the total increase because a likely rise in the cost-of-living or employee-paid benefits each year would noticeably reduce the value of smaller yearly increases.
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