Lee raises pay for 15 members of Cabinet

Republican Gov. Bill Lee is largely paying the members of his Cabinet similarly to predecessor Bill Haslam, but 15 department heads will receive a salary bump compared with the last administration.

The AP’s Kimberlee Kruesi reports that TennCare Commissioner Gabe Roberts is the highest-paid of Lee’s top advisers at $300,000 per year. He and the next seven highest paid commissioners will make the same amount their counterparts did under Haslam.

Lee gives some pay raises to cabinet members #tnpol https://t.co/Mnt4uvkTDd

— Kimberlee Kruesi (@kkruesi) February 4, 2019

The next 15 Cabinet members will receive $161,905 per year, an increase of between 2% and 6% from the last administration.