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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 24-1695

THE COURTS

Title 204—JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART VII. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF
PENNSYLVANIA COURTS

[204 PA. CODE CH. 211]

Judicial Salaries

[54 Pa.B. 7667]
[Saturday, November 30, 2024]

Annex A

TITLE 204. JUDICIAL SYSTEM GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART VII. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF PENNSYLVANIA COURTS

CHAPTER 211. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX AND JUDICIAL SALARIES

§ 211.1a. Consumer Price Index—judicial salaries.

 The Court Administrator of Pennsylvania reports that the percentage change in the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-DE-NJ-MD, Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the 12-month period ending October 2024, was 3.4 percent (3.4%). (See U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, Wednesday, November 13, 2024.)

§ 211.2. Judicial salaries effective January 1, 2025.

 The annual judicial salaries for calendar year beginning January 1, 2025 will be adjusted by a cost-of-living factor.

 (a) Supreme Court.

 (1) The annual salary of a justice of the Supreme Court shall be $261,976.

 (2) The annual salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall be $269,599.

 (b) Superior Court.

 (1) The annual salary of a judge of the Superior Court shall be $247,188.

 (2) The annual salary of the President Judge of the Superior Court shall be $254,807.

 (c) Commonwealth Court.

 (1) The annual salary of a judge of the Commonwealth Court shall be $247,188.

 (2) The annual salary of the President Judge of the Commonwealth Court shall be $254,807.

 (d) Courts of common pleas.

 (1) The annual salary of a judge of the court of common pleas shall be $227,411.

 (2) The annual salaries of the president judges of the courts of common pleas shall be in accordance with the following schedule:

 (i) Allegheny County, $231,222.

 (ii) Philadelphia County, $231,985.

 (iii) Judicial districts having six or more judges, $229,393.

 (iv) Judicial districts having five or fewer judges, $228,403.

 (v) Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County with six or more judges, $229,393.

 (vi) Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County with five or fewer judges, $228,403.

 (vii) Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County with six or more judges, $229,393.

 (viii) Administrative judges of the divisions of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County with five or fewer judges, $228,403.

 (e) Philadelphia Municipal Court.

 (1) The annual salary of a judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall be $222,149.

 (2) The annual salary of the President Judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court shall be $225,581.

 (g) Magisterial district judge. The annual salary of a magisterial district judge shall be $113,713.

 (h) Senior judges. The compensation of the senior judges pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 4121 (relating to assignment of judges) shall be $707 per day. In any calendar year the amount of compensation which a senior judge shall be permitted to earn as a senior judge shall not when added to retirement income paid by the Commonwealth for such senior judge exceed the compensation payable by the Commonwealth to a judge then in regular active service on the court from which said senior judge retired. A senior judge who so elects may serve without being paid all or any portion of the compensation provided by this section.

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 24-1695. Filed for public inspection November 27, 2024, 9:00 a.m.]


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