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On the recordJune 8, 2016
So that anybody making from about $23,000 could get a raise to over $23,000, everybody between 23 and 47 could get to 47 and it would cost you $265,000?
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the cost of raising employee salaries to meet new exemption levels.

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