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| Board boosting rookie CO pay |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 03/28/2008 |
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TEXAS - The state prison board is hoping higher pay and new incentives can help ease the shortage of corrections officers. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice voted Thursday to boost salaries for new corrections officers by 10 percent and to accelerate their move up the pay scale ladder. The immediate goal is to counter a significant defection of rookie officers during their first year when nearly half of them quit. The changes, effective May 1, will boost salary of a starting officer from $23,046 to $25,416 and compress seniority requirements to allow new officers to achieve higher pay grades in fewer months. In addition, the agency will be offering a recruitment bonus of $1,500 for new officers who go to work at state prisons considered understaffed. Typically, about 20 of the 106 prisons fall into that category. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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