{"id":3658,"date":"2012-01-11T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T21:15:29","slug":"gov-otters-salary-increased-4-percent-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/01\/11\/gov-otters-salary-increased-4-percent-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Otter&#8217;s Salary Increased 4 Percent From Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2869\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Gov. Otter's FY 2012 salary is $115,348\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2869\" title=\"Governor Otter.Still001\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001-620x348.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001-220x123.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/Governor-Otter.Still001.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Aaron Kunz \/ Boise State Public Radio<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Otter&#39;s FY 2012 salary is $115,348<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter&#8217;s salary is up 4 percent from last year according to the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.idaho.gov\/web\/scoweb.nsf\/pages\/2012LegHndbk.htm\/$File\/2012LegislativeHandbook.pdf?OpenElement\" target=\"_blank\">Rainbow Report<\/a> issued by the state controller&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Lewiston Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/lmtribune.com\/blogs\/political_theater\/article_4edc7f7a-3c89-11e1-9104-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> despite that 4 percent pay raise, the gap is widening between Otter&#8217;s salary and the highest paid state employee (Boise State University&#8217;s football coach).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The governor&#8217;s fiscal 2012 salary is $115,348, up from $110,734 last year, according to the annual \u201cRainbow Report\u201d issued by the state controller&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Boise State University head football coach Chris Peterson was once again the highest-paid state employee, with a $1.17 million annual salary \u2013 up 28 percent or $255,000 from the year before.<\/p>\n<p>(The report, which was released Friday, didn&#8217;t include the $375,000 raise the State Board of Education approved for Peterson last week. Nor did it mention that Peterson&#8217;s salary is paid from revenue generated by the Bronco football program, not state tax dollars.) &#8211; The Lewiston Tribune<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.idaho.gov\/web\/scoweb.nsf\/pages\/2012LegHndbk.htm\/$File\/2012LegislativeHandbook.pdf?OpenElement\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, 261 state employees are paid more than the governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter&#8217;s salary is up 4 percent from last year according to the annual Rainbow Report issued by the state controller&#8217;s office. The Lewiston Tribune reports despite that 4 percent pay raise, the gap is widening between Otter&#8217;s salary and the highest paid state employee (Boise State University&#8217;s football coach). The governor&#8217;s fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[235,27],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}