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The White House says President Barack Obama will propose a 1 percent pay raise next year for federal workers.

There are 5,355 California state workers who earned more than $200,000 last year and some of the biggest money makers come from unexpected professions, according to The Sacramento Bee. Click here to meet 20 overpaid state workers >

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is planning to cut the pay of about 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until a budget is signed, according to a draft of the governor's order obtained by The Times. Administration officials said Schwarzenegger is expected to sign the order early next week as part of an effort to avert a cash crisis. The controversial move, likely to be challenged in court by public-employee unions, would save the state about $1 billion a month, the officials said. Workers would be repaid their lost earnings once a budget was in place....

SACRAMENTO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday handed out hefty pay raises to 11 of his closest advisers, including a $32,000 boost to Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy. Kennedy remains the highest paid member of the governor's inner circle, although some of his cabinet secretaries make more. With the latest raise, Kennedy's taxpayer-funded salary will be $175,000 a year. The other 10, including Deputy Chief of Staff Adam Mendelsohn and Daniel Zingale, chief of staff to first lady Maria Shriver, will see their salaries increase 11 percent to $147,900. The pay raises come a week after Schwarzenegger signed a $145.5 billion...

SACRAMENTO — The top aide to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could earn a state salary exceeding $200,000 a year as part of a round of raises the governor is preparing to award his senior deputies. The raises could lift some salaries among the 185 people working in the governor's office to $169,500 in certain cases, with the governor's chief of staff, Susan P. Kennedy, eligible for up to $225,000. Kennedy now collects a state salary of $143,000, and the most senior aides beneath her earn about $134,000. The pay hikes were set in motion last year, when the governor signed a...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving hefty raises to nearly 50 top state administrators, saying they are necessary to retain and attract talented managers. The largest raise goes to Ruben Grijalva, director of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. His salary will rise 27%, from $133,732 to $169,500. Ten agency directors and the directors at four departments - Health Services, Mental Health, Social Services and Developmental Services - will receive 23% raises. The commissioner of the California Highway Patrol is receiving a 19% raise. Other department directors will get increases of between 7% and 12%. They take effect April...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is expected to announce today pay raises of up to 27 percent for more than 50 top officials, saying the state must boost salaries to remain competitive with local governments that pay more. The new salaries taking effect April 1 won't cost taxpayers more, at least initially, but they will force state departments to make cuts or otherwise absorb the raises within existing personnel budgets. The hefty raises - 10 agency heads, for example, would see their annual salaries grow to $175,000, a 23 percent increase - come as Schwarzenegger is preaching the need...

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association may be miles away from getting a new labor contract with the state, but its members appear to be in line for a pay raise sooner rather than later, thanks to the union's victory in a grievance it filed a year ago. In a decision dated Saturday, an arbitrator ruled that the CCPOA's 31,000 members are entitled to a pay raise based on compensation increases the state gave to the California Highway Patrol. The prison officers' pay is linked to the CHP's union contract, and the arbitrator ruled that health insurance and holiday leave-time...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Wednesday that includes a provision added in the waning days of the legislative session allowing his administration to nearly double the pay of 50 top state bosses. Under Assembly Bill 2936, the workers -- mostly heads of agencies and departments -- could get as much as 125 percent of the governor's salary, although the governor says he intends to extend the raise to only one or two officials. Schwarzenegger doesn't take his pay. But in 2007, the salary assigned to his office is scheduled to increase to $206,500. That would mean the top administrators...

Say what you want about Democratic Governor Fast Eddie Rendell, it appears that he neatly ambushed the Republican legislature. I think he planned all along to set the Republicans up with their very unpopular pay raise. When it first happened in July, he said it's the law and that was all he was going to say about it.But, after the letters, phone calls and e-mails - as expected - poured in, he said he was against it.Many of the legislators soon decided that they were also against the "unvouchered pay raise" but most felt they are entitled to the 16...

This is just a ping headline for a previously posted article that had a badly watered down title. Are Federal tax dollars to cover every imaginable cost? Are Senators and Representatives to be rewarded for scheming more and more how to raid the Federal tax payer? Schumer is trying to put Bush on the spot with this. I have an answer to how Bush could handle that in the original thread. Please click here to read/discuss.