PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A 2-percent pay raise is not all that state Education Commissioner Deborah Gist is poised to get out of her new contract approved on Thursday night.
According to Department of Education spokesman Elliot Krieger, Gists's base salary during the year that ended on June 30, 2012 was $190,000.
The state paid her an additional 7.3-percent "annuity'' payment on top of that, which would have brought her pay to $203,870 had her salary not been subject at that time to a $203,000 cap.
But the calendar that year included an extra pay period, elevating her salary to $210,807.70. And she received a $200 a month car allowance. The total: $213,207.
The new contract raises her base pay by 2 percent to $193,800 and the annuity payment brings it to $207,947.40.
Her car allowance is going up to $225 a month and her new contract provides a new $2,500-a-year "technology allowance,'' that will put her salary at roughly the same place it was last year with its extra pay period: about $213,147.