Georgia leaders agree to $1,000 bonus for most state workers

More than 57,000 state employees will receive a one-time $1,000 payment through this year’s mid-year budget.

Gov. Brian Kemp and the state’s highest ranking GOP lawmakers called a press conference Wednesday afternoon to make the announcement. They did not take questions from reporters.

Kemp announced earlier this year that federal coronavirus relief funds would be used to give the state’s teachers and other staff a one-time $1,000 pay bump.

Now, $59.6 million will be reshuffled in this year’s budget to give state employees earning less than $80,000 the same treatment.

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