With less than six weeks left before it is expected to release a report setting salaries for New York state judges through 2023, the Commission on Legislative, Judicial and Executive Compensation weighed whether to follow the Office of Court Administration’s recommendation that they should continue to be linked to the compensation of federal judges.
Under that system, a state Supreme Court justice makes the same amount as a federal district judge, while judges in lower state courts make a set percentage of that number and judges in the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals make proportionally more. When federal judges receive cost-of-living increases, state judges do too.
