WESTMORELAND COUNTY OFFICIALS GETTING PAY RAISES AGAIN IN 2025

Officials in Westmoreland County are getting pay raises again in 2025.  County commissioners and row officers will see a roughly three-point-four percent salary bump in January, essentially the same raise they got at the start of this year.  The increases are mandated by an ordinance passed in the county in 1996 that bases wage hikes on the consumer price index for a handful of states in the northeast.  Westmoreland’s elected officials have received raises totaling more than 20 percent since 2022.  County Commissioner Ted Kopas has proposed a measure that would cap those raises at two-and-a-half percent each year but the proposal has not gotten much traction.