salary hike for lawmakers
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The three senators who sponsored legislation to hike the annual salaries of the governor and lieutenant governor have introduced a new bill to increase the annual compensation for lawmakers by $15,000 a year — to be effective in the next Legislature, which is two years...

![Pursuant to local law, the proposed pay increases would become effective the first-day of the next Legislature after it is passed. In this case, the 38th Legislature — two years away. [SN file photo] Rendering of the proposed new fono building.](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono_bldg_rendering_71.jpg?itok=dPGfqiPh)