Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Friday he supports a “substantial” raise for Wisconsin Assistant District Attorneys (ADA’s).
“We have been working in our caucus to do a substantial raise, because we need to make sure we keep the people who are already there,” Vos said.
During the Milwaukee Press Club event, the Wisconsin Law Journal asked Vos: Given law students are graduating with significant student loan debt and are taking on serious cases as ADA’s, does he support increasing the current wages Assistant District Attorney.
In response, Vos said he supports raising the current wage of $27.56 hour that Wisconsin District Attorneys make.
“We just did a salary study for the state legislature. … it made me realize that for a lot of these jobs we have to think differently to attract the best and brightest people,” Vos said.
Vos said Gov. Evers made a mistake and did not propose a high enough salary increase for Assistant District Attorneys.
“Gov. Evers proposed an increase and I think he made a mistake … he proposed an either $7 or $9 an hour pay increase, but it capped out so the highest paid people would basically get nothing. Well, those are the most productive people doing the most cases,” Vos said noting that Evers proposal was to increase pay for new Assistant District Attorney Hires, and Vos wants to increase pay for existing senior District Attorneys as well.
Vos said he also met with Attorney General Kaul this week and said a...
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