No Pay Cuts for Auditor Marion Higa?

First an attempt to give Kalbert Young a raise, now a move to lower Marion Higa’s salary?

Nanea Kalani writes in her Money blog: 

House Bill 2179 caught my eye this morning. The measure would make it so that the state auditor — a position long held by Higa — would be subject to pay cuts along with other state executives. 

The bill notes that “heads of legislative service agencies have experienced a recent salary decrease,” but that the auditor’s salary has been untouched. “The legislature finds that the auditor’s salary should be subject to the same provisions as other legislative service agency heads.”

Higa earns a salary of $129,024, according to Civil Beat’s database of public salaries.

The bill is scheduled to be heard by the House Finance Committee Thursday afternoon. It already cleared the Legislative Management committee, where Higa testified against the bill.