State Workers Get
New York state workers get a fresh pay grid
The rewrite updates salary grades, hiring rates and advance steps for covered PS&T workers. Pay would rise on different spring dates for administrative and institutional payroll staff.
A New York bill would replace older salary language for some state officers and employees with a new PS&T schedule. It sets new pay rates and start dates for administrative and institutional payroll workers in spring 2026.
- A new PS&T salary schedule would replace older civil service pay language.
- Administrative payroll workers would switch on March 26, 2026.
- Institutional payroll workers would switch on April 2, 2026.
- The bill sets salary grades, hiring rates and advance steps.
- Some workers would get prorated increases instead of flat annual pay.
In New York, certain state officers and employees would see their pay set by a new grid starting in spring 2026. The bill rewrites part of civil service law for the professional, scientific and technical services unit, or PS&T, replacing older salary language with a new PS&T salary schedule and changing the compensation rules for covered workers.
Administrative payroll workers would fall under the new schedule on March 26, 2026. Institutional payroll workers would follow on April 2, 2026.
A grid built around salary grades
The schedule lays out hiring rates, job rates, advance rates and advance amounts by salary grade, so the change is not just a general promise of better pay. It creates a clearer wage ladder for covered jobs and gives each grade a set of numbers instead of leaving the old language in place.
For full-time annual-salaried workers in the unit, the basic salary would rise 4.5 percent in 2026, 4 percent in 2027, 3.5 percent in 2028, and 3 percent in both 2029 and 2030. Hourly, per diem, part-time and seasonal employees who are otherwise eligible would get prorated increases.
What happens to workers already on the books
The rewrite also repeals subparagraphs 1, 2 and 3 of paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section 130 of the civil service law and replaces them with five new subparagraphs. For workers already being paid at the hiring rate or the job rate for a grade, the bill would move them to the new rate for that grade when the new schedule takes effect.
For certain state officers and employees, the change reaches compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment, not just base pay. That makes the spring 2026 dates the key line for employees trying to understand when their current pay rules stop and the new system begins.