Dalton didn't get his extra pay

Walter Dalton wasn't paid for acting as governor.

The lieutenant governor served in the place of Gov. Beverly Perdue while she was on a vacation out of the state last week. 

State law says he should have been paid her salary, too:

During the period that any individual serves as Acting Governor ... his compensation shall be at the rate then provided by law in the case of the Governor.

It's not much of a pay raise. The governor makes $139,590 a year and the lieutenant governor $123,198, so the difference would be $63.04 for each day he was in charge.

But Dalton did not take the extra money.

"He has not received her salary at all," said Sherri Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Office of the State Controller, which cuts pay checks to state officials. "He didn't get that, and he didn't ask for it."

She said they are not aware of any recent lieutenant governor who has received the additional pay while acting as governor.