SECTION 8. EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS - FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026
This section provides instructions for implementing the Fiscal Year
2025-2026 salary and benefit adjustments provided in this act. All
allocations, distributions, and uses of these funds are to be made in
strict accordance with the provisions of this act and chapter 216,
Florida Statutes.
Unless otherwise specified in this section, references to an "eligible"
employee refer to an employee who is, at a minimum, meeting his or her
required performance standards, if applicable. If an ineligible employee
achieves performance standards subsequent to the salary implementation
date, but on or before the end of the fiscal year, the employee may
receive the increase; however, the increase shall be effective on the
date the employee becomes eligible but not retroactively. In addition,
any salary increase or bonus provided under this section shall be
pro-rated based on the full-time equivalency of the employee's position.
Employees classified as other personal services employees are not
eligible for an increase.
The Legislature intends that all eligible employees receive the
increases specified in this section, even if the implementation of such
increases results in an employee's salary exceeding the adjusted pay
grade maximum.
(1) EMPLOYEE AND OFFICER COMPENSATION
(a) Officer Compensation
Effective July 1, 2025, the elected officers, members of commissions,
and designated employees shall be paid at the annual rate listed below;
however, these salaries may be reduced on a voluntary basis.
Governor.................................................. 141,400
Lieutenant Governor....................................... 135,516
Chief Financial Officer................................... 139,988
Attorney General.......................................... 139,988
Commissioner of Agriculture............................... 139,988
Supreme Court Justice..................................... 258,957
Judges - District Courts of Appeal........................ 218,939
Judges - Circuit Courts................................... 196,898
Judges - County Courts.................................... 186,034
Judges of Compensation Claims............................. 177,160
State Attorneys........................................... 218,939
Public Defenders.......................................... 218,939
Commissioner - Public Service Commission.................. 154,994
Commissioner - Florida Gaming Control Commission.......... 154,994
Public Employees Relations Commission Chair............... 114,793
Public Employees Relations Commission Commissioners....... 54,423
Commission on Offender Review Chair....................... 146,003
Commission on Offender Review Commissioners............... 135,188
Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels............. 140,914
None of the officers, commission members, or employees whose salaries
have been fixed in this section shall receive any supplemental salary or
benefits from any county or municipality.
(2) SPECIAL PAY ISSUES
(a) Law Enforcement Officers Compensation
1. Effective July 1, 2025, $14,840,477 in recurring General Revenue and
$29,451,711 in recurring trust funds provided in Specific Appropriation
1916 are appropriated for Fiscal Year 2025-2026, to grant a competitive
pay adjustment of 20 percent to each eligible entry level sworn law
enforcement officer's base rate of pay, as of the last day of the last
completed month upon this act becoming law, employed by the following
agencies: Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, Department of
Agriculture and Consumer Services, Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission, Department of Business and Professional Regulation,
Department of Financial Services, Department of Lottery, Florida
Department of Law Enforcement, Justice Administration Commission, State
Court System, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Agency
for Persons with Disabilities, Department of Children and Families, and
the Division of Emergency Management.
Any unexpended balances of funds remaining in Specific Appropriation
1916 on June 30, 2026, shall revert. Agencies are authorized to continue
the competitive pay adjustment in Fiscal Year 2026-2027.