Georgia Supreme Court Justice Charles Bethel has presented a potential model for consistency and fairness in future superior court judge salaries. The proposal would set a base rate that all state judges’ pay would be calculated from, while still including a provision for superior court judges to receive local supplements.

Bethel was among the speakers at the Judicial Salaries and Supplements Ad Hoc Committee  April 28 meeting to discuss a survey of 187 Georgia Superior Court judges and their opinions on the role local county supplements play in determining their salaries. Of those, 81% of respondents did not feel that the current compensation system was fair to all superior court judges, and 57% of respondents felt that the current system of local supplements should be phased out for a uniform system of compensation.

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