About 1,350 of Arkansas’ approximately 22,500 executive branch employees will get a temporary 2% cost-of-living adjustment in their paychecks today, but their next paycheck March 11 won’t include the adjustment, state officials said Thursday.

These employees will instead receive lump sum payments totaling $1.4 million on June 17, because state law requires that any employee at the maximum of their pay grade receive the payment at the end of the fiscal year, state officials said. The lump sum payments for these employees won’t extend into fiscal 2023, which starts July 1.

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