Lottery chair: Pay for performance

State Lottery Commission chairman John McArthur said proposed 5 percent raises for lottery employees encourage a better-run state lottery.

The House proposed Wednesday limiting the lottery employees' raises to that of other state employees. Other state employees would get across-the-board raises of 2.75 percent or $1,100, which ever is greater. The state lottery employees receive merit-based raises and the commission approved a budget that would allow for an average 5 percent raise.

McArthur said the lottery was created by the legislature and it can do what it wishes, but he said he would recommend keeping the raises as the lottery proposed.

"Making individual merit salary determinations based on employee performance is a part of trying to increase lottery revenue by trying to manage it as a business," McArthur said.

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ElectriCities Rate Meeting

Submitted by ttBR549 on June 6, 2008 - 10:14am.

Attend the June 27 10 am meeting in Rocky Mount at the Braswell Library and find out WHY your rates are increasing in electric cities. Ask questions. Be heard. And if you are anti annexation near one of these cities, attend, your rates may be high if you are annexed.

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Re: Lottery chair: Pay for performance

Submitted by ttBR549 on June 6, 2008 - 10:09am.

The legislature did create and should do what is fair across the board for all employees. Does not look particularly well run to me. And they seem to have not met their goals yet so why the pay increases?

Kind of like ElectriCities of NC and Jesse Tilton, they do not meet any goals except superspending and give themselves 16% pay increases for a job not so well done. Refinance is a failure and costs ratepayers so I think I will give myself a raise.

The following legislators accepted PAC money from ElectriCities when their constituents are being hit with HUGE RATE increases due to mismanagement of refinancing, legal bills, salary increases and super trips around the country with nice suites and filet mignon. These legislators need to stand up and return the money or they appear to be supporting an overspending CEO who has botched refinancing of rates on $5 BILLION in debt costing us millions each month.

It does appear that Board Members ceased giving to the PAC at the end of 2007 and many staff people (even though they got GIGANTIC raises and salaries) lowered their contributions. Don't see where the big spender CEO Tilton gave in 2008 yet though. He prefers to keep his money I guess and just direct everyone else as to what to do.

$1000
Dan Blue
Hugh Holloman
Martin Nesbitt
Rock Glazier
Tony Rand
David Hoyle
Fred Steen
Joe Hackney
Karen Ray
Mark Basnight
Bill Owens
Phil Berger
$500
Jeff Barnhart
Laura Wiley
David Weinstein
Edgar Starnes
Larry Shaw
Jim Harrell
Katie Dorsett
Bill Purcell

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Re: Lottery chair: Pay for performance

Submitted by dahedgehog on June 5, 2008 - 8:07pm.

Then they should get a raise as soon as they provide $425 million for public schools. That was their original projection. They've yet to meet it.

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Re: Lottery chair: Pay for performance

Submitted by liam on June 5, 2008 - 3:45pm.

So, by Mr. McArthur's logic, why shouldn't we base pay increases for all state employees based on their performance? If we could devise some metric as easy to judge as the lottery's ticket sales performance than we could hold every state employee accountable.

Hmmm, now how would we judge Les Merritt's pay raise?

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