The county board increased salaries for supervisors by 30 percent and the chairman's salary by nearly 40 percent, to be applied to the next board in January.
After a sometimes heated public hearing on the issue that lasted several hours, the board voted 8-2 to raise supervisors’ annual pay from $95,000 to $123,283 and the chairman’s salary from $100,000 to $138,283.is installed in January, will help attract a more diverse pool of candidates to part-time offices that have become demanding full-time jobs.
With the region’s economy again wobbly, this time from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, county residents and labor unions argued that the county should steer more money toward people struggling with annual mortgage payments and other expenses instead of increasing the salaries of elected officials.The county budget for the next fiscal year proposed by County Executive Bryan Hill would keep the property tax rate for homeowners at $1.
Labor unions argued those raises don’t keep up with the higher cost of living in the region after similarly small raises in recent years — a situation they said has driven county employees to quit or move outside Fairfax. That motion passed. But several supervisors seemed uncomfortable with what amounts to giving themselves a raise if they are reelected in November. All but Foust and Supervisor Penelope A. Gross are pursuing another term.
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