Most Missouri government employees would get a 2 percent pay raise starting July 1, under the proposal coming this week from the House Budget Committee.
State Rep. Jay Barnes, R-Jefferson City, on Thursday thanked House Budget Chairman Ryan Silvey, R-Kansas City, "for his leadership" on including a pay raise for all state employees making less than $70,000 per year.
Barnes said Silvey's plan keeps a promise Gov. Jay Nixon made last August, even though Nixon's budget proposal in January only offered a 2 percent raise starting next Jan. 1 - six months later than the governor originally had announced.