In the past year, I believe state employees have had something like an 8% raise (cola and merit - so less if you didn't meet merit goals) - with another 4.5% coming in november. Previously, I think the last raise was .5% before the pandemic (and I may be wrong, but I don't think there was any raise the previous few years before 2019) I think the state is very worried about losing employees due to generally low salaries compared to private industry.