# Vigo County sends a deputy prosecutor pay raise — and its public-defender price tag — to the full council

## What happened
The budget committee discussed a request to raise deputy prosecutors' pay, and a committee member said doing so would also trigger a matching pay increase for public defenders — required, they believed, by a state law linking the two offices' pay. The deputy-prosecutor raise alone was estimated to add about $100,000; later in the same meeting, committee members put the proposed new deputy prosecutor salary at roughly $90,000. The auditor's office told the committee it had received a letter from the prosecutor's office saying the office is losing ground on salaries and can't keep the positions filled.

## The outcome
Referred to the full county council with no committee vote taken.

## Sources
- [Raising deputy prosecutor pay would trigger a matching public-defender increase, 18:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=1118)
- [Estimated added cost: about $100,000, 18:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=1133)
- [Reason given: the prosecutor's office can't keep positions filled, 19:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=1151)
- [Auditor's office relays a letter about losing ground on salaries, 27:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=1675)
- [Committee refers the decision to the full council, 31:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=1901)
- [Proposed deputy prosecutor salary put at about $90,000, 2:26:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI1Sw5K1LHE&t=8807)

*Also known as: deputy prosecutor raise · public defender pay increase · prosecutor's office salaries*