NEBRASKA JUDGES AGAIN LIKELY TO RECEIVE PAY RAISES, CONSISTENT SINCE 2005

LINCOLN — As pay raises for Nebraska’s constitutional officers and state lawmakers remain stagnant for decades, the state’s 148 judges are once again likely to receive salary bumps over the next two fiscal years, as they’ve had for 30 of the past 36 years. Nebraska judges have routinely gotten salary bumps since 2005, with annual July 1 increases in all but 2011 and 2018. Even in 2018, to make up for it, judges got two raises in 2019: Jan. 1 and July 1.

This year, Legislative Bill 513, from State Sen. Carolyn Bosn of Lincoln, as chair of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, seeks to offer 1.5% salary raises in each of the next two fiscal years — on July 1 and again July 1, 2026. Under LB 513, which is one vote away from passing, the seven justices on the Nebraska Supreme Court would be paid $228,431.18 on July 1. This would rise to $231,857.65 on July 1, 2026.  

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