STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman DAVID C. RUSSO
District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)
Assemblyman SCOTT T. RUMANA
District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)
Assemblyman THOMAS P. GIBLIN
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
Assemblyman KEVIN J. ROONEY
District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Increases judicial salaries by set amount over multiple years, and thereafter provides for annual salary cost of living adjustment.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning judicial salaries and amending N.J.S.2B:2-4.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.2B:2-4 is amended to read as follows:
2B:2-4. Judicial Salaries. [Annual salaries of justices and judges beginning on January 1, 2008 shall be:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court $183,182
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court $176,488
Judge of the Superior Court,
Appellate Division $167,023
Judge of the Superior Court,
Assignment Judge $163,404
Judge of the Superior Court;
Judge of the Tax Court $157,000]
Annual salaries of justices and judges beginning on January 1, [2009 and thereafter] 2016 shall be:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [$192,795] $197,795
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court [$185,482] $190,482
Judge of the Superior Court,
Appellate Division [$175,534] $180,534
Judge of the Superior Court,
Assignment Judge [$171,731] $176,731
Judge of the Superior Court;
Judge of the Tax Court [$165,000] $170,000
Annual salaries of justices and judges beginning on January 1, 2017 shall be:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court $202,795
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court $195,482
Judge of the Superior Court,
Appellate Division $185,534
Judge of the Superior Court,
Assignment Judge $181,731
Judge of the Superior Court;
Judge of the Tax Court $175,000
Annual salaries of justices and judges beginning on January 1, 2018 shall be:
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court $207,795
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court $200,482
Judge of the Superior Court,
Appellate Division $190,534
Judge of the Superior Court,
Assignment Judge $186,731
Judge of the Superior Court;
Judge of the Tax Court $180,000
The salaries of justices and judges, beginning on January 1, 2019 and annually thereafter, shall be subject to a cost of living adjustment, calculated as the average change in the Consumer Price Index during the preceding calendar year for all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted for all items, in the metropolitan statistical areas that encompass New Jersey, as reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(cf: P.L.2007, c.350, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would increase the salaries of all justices of the Supreme Court, and judges of both the Superior Court and Tax Court. All justices’ and judges’ salaries would be annually increased by $5,000 for three consecutive years, beginning on January 1, 2016. Thereafter, beginning on January 1, 2019 and continuing annually, the salaries would be subject to a cost of living adjustment. This adjustment would be calculated as the average change in the Consumer Price Index during the preceding calendar year for all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted for all items, in the metropolitan statistical areas that encompass New Jersey, as reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.