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Group Wanst Salary Changes for IL Judges
(IRN)-Illinois judges are overpaid, according to a free market think tank.

In Illinois, circuit judges make $174,303, appellate judges make $189,949, and Supreme Court justices make $201,819, according to a report being released Wednesday by the Illinois Policy Institute. These salaries are the second highest in the nation at the circuit and appellate level, and the third highest at the Supreme Court level, in a state whose cost of living is in the middle of the pack, says IPI Director John Tillman, commenting on Judicial Pay and Perks in the Prairie State.

Tillman says he wants to see automatic cost of living adjustments for judges stopped, and for raises to require action by the General Assembly to take effect. He says the cost of living raises put upward pressure on judicial salaries.

Tillman is also sore over a Supreme Court decision in 2003 that struck down the governor's veto of cost of living adjustments. He says judges' raises now come with no accountability.

Tillman himself makes $180,000 as director of the IPI, but he points out that that is all from private funds, voluntarily contributed.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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