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Article: Brother, can you spare a dime? NY judges survive on $136k.(Opinions and Letters to the Editor)
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- The Informed Constituent (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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The tragedy and big news: According to the New York Bar Journal, Chief Justice Judith Kayes used the words, "Disgraceful. Shabby. Infuriating," to describe a lack of a judicial pay raise. According to the Democrat Chronicle out of Rochester New York, in an article entitled "Judicial Pay Equity," "Clearly infuriated and distressed, Kaye's shift in style and tone was understandable and appropriate."
Trial Court judges in New York make $136,700 per year. The median income for a family household is in ballpark of $46,326. (Source: United States Census Bureau). In other words, today, New York judges make approximately three times that median household income.
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