2017 Georgia Code
Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 7 - Salaries and Fees
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 45-7-4. (For effective date, see note.) Annual salaries of certain state officials; cost-of-living adjustments

(1) (For effective date, see note.) Governor.................$175,000.00

An allowance in an amount specified in the appropriations Act

shall also be provided for the operation of the Governor's

mansion.

(2) Lieutenant Governor........................................54,920.00

• (3) Adjutant general

  The adjutant general shall continue to receive the pay and

  allowances under the same procedure as provided by law.

  (4) Commissioner of Agriculture...............................100,429.00

  (5) Attorney General..........................................114,633.00

• (6) Reserved.

  (7) Commissioner of Insurance.................................100,396.00

• (8) Reserved.

  (9) Commissioner of Labor.....................................100,418.00

  The above amount of salary for the Commissioner of Labor shall

  include any compensation received from the United States

  government and the amount of state funds paid shall be reduced

  by the amount of compensation received from the United States

  government.

• (10) Reserved.

• (11) Each member of the Public Service Commis-

  sion.........................................................96,655.00

• (12) Reserved.

  (13) State School Superintendent...............................102,708.00

  (14) Secretary of State........................................102,708.00

• (15) Reserved.

• (16) Reserved.

• (17) Reserved.

  (18) Each Justice of the Supreme Court.........................175,600.00

  (19) Each Judge of the Court of Appeals........................174,500.00

  (20) Each superior court judge.................................126,265.00

  (21) Each district attorney....................................120,072.00

  (22) Each member of the General Assembly........................16,200.00

  • (A) Reserved.
  • (B) Each member of the General Assembly shall also receive the

    allowances provided by law. The amount of the daily expense

    allowance which each member is entitled to receive under the

    provisions of Code Section 28-1-8 shall be as provided in that

    Code section. The mileage allowance for the use of a personal

    car on official business shall be the same as that received by

    other state officials and employees.

  • (C) In addition to any other compensation and allowances

    authorized for members of the General Assembly, each member may

    be reimbursed for per diem differential and for actual expenses

    incurred in the performance of duties as a member of the

    General Assembly in an amount not to exceed $7,000.00 per year.

    Expenses reimbursable up to such amount shall be limited to one

    or more of the following purposes: lodging, meals, per diem

    differential, postage, personal services, printing and

    publications, rents, supplies (including software),

    telecommunications, transportation, utilities, purchasing or

    leasing of equipment, and other reasonable expenditures

    directly related to the performance of a member's duties. If

    equipment purchased by a member has a depreciated value of

    $100.00 or less when such member leaves office, the equipment

    does not need to be returned to the state. No reimbursement

    shall be made for any postage which is used for a political

    newsletter. No reimbursement shall be paid for lodging or meals

    for any day for which a member receives the daily expense

    allowance as provided in this paragraph. Eligible expenses

    shall be reimbursed following the submission of vouchers to the

    legislative fiscal office in compliance with the requirements

    of this subparagraph and subject to the provisions of

    subparagraph (E) of this paragraph. Such vouchers shall be

    submitted in such form and manner as prescribed by the

    Legislative Services Committee pursuant to subparagraph (E) of

    this paragraph, provided that each such voucher shall be

    accompanied by a supporting document or documents, or legible

    copies thereof, showing payment for each expense claimed or an

    explanation of the absence of such documentation; in addition,

    each such voucher shall include a certification by the member

    that the information contained in such voucher and supporting

    document or documents, or legible copies thereof, is true and

    correct and that such expenses were incurred by the member. The

    provisions of Code Section 16-10-20 shall be applicable to any

    person submitting such certified vouchers and supporting

    documents or copies the same as if the General Assembly were a

    department or agency of state government. No such voucher or

    supporting document shall be required for per diem differential.

  • (D) The amount of per diem differential which may be claimed for

    each day under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph shall be the

    difference between the daily expense allowance authorized for

    members of the General Assembly and $119.00; provided, however,

    that the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year may

    increase such amount of $119.00 per day to an amount not in

    excess of the federal per diem rate then in effect for the

    state capital as specified by the General Services

    Administration. Per diem differential shall be paid by the

    legislative fiscal office to the member upon the member's

    notification to the legislative fiscal office of the days for

    which the daily expense allowance was received for which the

    member wishes to claim the per diem differential, and the

    legislative fiscal office shall keep a record of the days for

    which per diem differential is so claimed and paid.

  • (E) For the purposes of this paragraph, a year shall begin on the

    convening date of the General Assembly in regular session each

    year and end on the day prior to the convening of the General

    Assembly in the next calendar year. Any voucher or claim for

    any reimbursement for any year as defined in this paragraph

    shall be submitted no later than the fifteenth of April

    immediately following the end of such year. No reimbursement

    shall be made on any voucher or claim submitted after that

    date. Any amounts remaining in such expense account at the end

    of the first year of the two year biennium may be claimed for

    expenses incurred during the second year of the two year

    biennium. Any amounts remaining in any expense account which

    are not so claimed by April 15 of the year following the second

    year of the biennium and any amounts claimed which are returned

    as hereafter provided for in this paragraph shall lapse and

    shall be remitted by the legislative fiscal office to the

    general fund of the state treasury. Any former member of the

    General Assembly may be reimbursed for expenses incurred while

    a member of the General Assembly upon compliance with the

    provisions of this paragraph. The Legislative Services

    Committee is empowered to provide such procedures as it deems

    advisable to administer the provisions of this paragraph,

    including, but not limited to, definitions of the above list of

    items for which reimbursement may be made; provided, however,

    that the term "other reasonable expenditures directly related

    to the performance of a member's duties" shall be as defined by

    policies adopted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives

    and by the Senate Administrative Affairs Committee as to

    reimbursement of such expenditures incurred by members of the

    House and Senate, respectively; and provided, further, that the

    amount of expenses which may be reimbursed within the limits of

    subparagraph (C) of this paragraph for travel outside the state

    may be as provided by policies adopted by the Speaker of the

    House of Representatives and by the Senate Administrative

    Affairs Committee as to such expenditures of members of the

    House and Senate, respectively. The Legislative Services

    Committee is further empowered to prescribe the form of the

    voucher or claim which must be submitted to the legislative

    fiscal office. In the event of any disagreement as to whether

    any reimbursement shall be made or any allowance shall be paid,

    the Legislative Services Committee shall make the final

    determination; except that in the event of any disagreement as

    to whether any reimbursement under subparagraph (C) of this

    paragraph shall be made for other reasonable expenses directly

    related to the performance of a member's duties or for travel

    outside the state, the Speaker of the House shall make the

    final determination as to such expenses incurred by a member of

    the House, and the Senate Administrative Affairs Committee

    shall make the final determination as to such expenses incurred

    by a member of the Senate. In the event any reimbursement is

    made or any allowance is paid and it is later determined that

    such reimbursement or payment was made in error, the person to

    whom such reimbursement or payment was made shall remit to the

    legislative fiscal office the amount of money involved. In the

    event any such person refuses to make such remittance, the

    legislative fiscal office is authorized to withhold the payment

    of any other moneys to which such person is entitled until the

    amount of such reimbursement or payment which was made in error

    shall be realized.

    (23) Speaker of the House of Representatives....................17,800.00

    The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall also receive the

    salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General

    Assembly. Upon the taking of office by the members of the

    General Assembly on the convening day of the regular session of

    the General Assembly in 1983, the annual salary of the Speaker

    of the House of Representatives shall become $22,800.00. After

    such date, the Speaker shall also receive as additional salary

    a sum equal to the amount of salary over $30,000.00 per annum

    which is received by the Lieutenant Governor as of that date or

    thereafter; and the salary of the Speaker shall be adjusted at

    the beginning of each term so as to include such additional sum.

    (24) President Pro Tempore of the Senate.........................4,800.00

    The President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall also receive the

    salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General

    Assembly.

    (25) Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives.........4,800.00

    The Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives shall also receive the salary and allowances authorized as a member of the General Assembly.

• (1) Is not a member of the General Assembly; and

• (2) Is not a contributing member of a state retirement system and, therefore, does not benefit by or participate in any program whereunder a portion of the employee contributions to the state retirement system are made on behalf of the employee by the employer.