Virginia House and Senate finance committees on Sunday recommended widespread pay raises for public employees and more money for the state’s rainy day fund as they wrestled with Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposed budget amendments.

McDonnell has called for $58.5 million to gives teachers a 2 percent pay increase to be matched by local governments. But the Senate finance and House appropriations committees both moved to extend the raise to school support staff such as custodians and information technology workers.