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CPA, CDA now exempted from salary cap
Acting governor Victor B. Hocog signed into law Thursday a bill that exempts the Commonwealth Ports Authority and the Commonwealth Development Authority from the salary limits imposed by the Compensation Adjustment Act.
The CAA limited the salaries of both CPA and CDA members. Prior to the CPA being exempted as a whole, the salary cap exempted only CPA managers and CPA port managers.
House Bill 19-139, HD1, now signed into law as Public Law 19-71, exempts members of the CPA, CDA, Commonwealth Utilities Corp., and the Northern Marianas Housing Corp. from the CAA, which capped government employee salaries to no more than $50,000 annually.
HB 19-139’s author, Rep. Antonio Sablan (R-Ind), thinks that exempting CPA and CDA from the salary cap helps retain officials.
“[Over the past couple of years], we’ve come across problems with the salary structure in the government. I think that the limitation on the salary cap is in some ways detrimental to how we operate and maintain well experienced and qualified people in the government,” said Sablan. “It basically limits the advancement of people, and so well trained and experienced people tend to look elsewhere,” he added.
