Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors voted for healthy pay raises for two of its top officials this week, raising their six-figure base salaries by thousands of dollars.
The board agreed on Monday to boost County Executive Anthony Griffin’s salary to $223,160, an increase of $9,200 over last year. County Attorney David Bobzien’s salary was upped to $192,880, an increase of the same amount. The changes go into effect Feb. 3.
The decision comes after Griffin and Bobzien underwent performance reviews by a Board of Supervisors panel, chaired by Mason District Supervisor Penelope Gross. Citing confidentiality of personnel records, Gross said the county is not releasing the results of reviews.
According to a database of employee salaries, the two were the highest paid nonschool county employees in 2006. Griffin is the most powerful nonelected official in Fairfax County’s staff, overseeing multiple departments in Virginia’s largest local government. Bobzien leads the county’s on-staff legal squad.
Neither are paid nearly as much as Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale, who made a base salary of $266,292 for fiscal 2007.
“We probably underpay our county executive and county attorney,” Gross said.
