The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly True | Don Zimmerman says non-city workers haven't seen 3 percent salary increases the past several years
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The salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years." Austin City Council Member Don Zimmerman objected to a 3 percent pay raise for Austin city employees partly by saying other Austin residents haven’t landed similar hikes. An Austin American-Statesman news story posted online Sept. 1, 2015, quoted Zimmerman, the District 6 Austin City Council member, telling colleagues that Austin residents who aren’t city employees face the same taxes, fees and utility bills that employees confront. "And," Zimmerman said, "their salaries have not ...
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