On Monday April 1, MLAs salaries increased by £500, bringing their annual earnings to £52,500
MLAs returned to Stormont on Monday after the Easter break and following a pay rise which came into effect last week.
In January 2023, MLAs had their salaries cut by the UK government to around £37,000 in due to Stormont's collapse. Their annual wages were then restored to previous levels when devolution returned in early February."Under the terms of the Assembly Members Determination 2016, which was determined independently, MLAs will qualify for a £500 pay increase from the 1 April 2024 on the basis of criterion in relation to the rate of inflation," she added.
"These people just need to prove to everybody - do the job first and for a long period of time before they can give themselves any type of pay increase like that. "But I think you also have to be optimistic and hope that now they're going to get their heads down, put a shift in and that the rest of us can actually start to benefit from it instead of them just getting their pay rise and the usual stalemates and nonsense that we always have to deal with."
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