How does Gov. Ducey’s salary stack up to others nationwide?
Feb 17, 2018, 2:23 PM | Updated: Feb 18, 2018, 5:40 pm
From left standing: Arizona Senate President Steve Yarbrough, Arizona Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs, Arizona Speaker of the House J.D. Mesnard and Arizona House Minority Leader Rebecca Rios watch as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signs the order calling the Legislature into a special session, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, at the Capitol in Phoenix. The special session will enact a law in an effort to cut opioid overdose deaths. Ducey's proposal bars doctors from prescribing more than an initial five-day supply of pain medication, boosts pain clinic regulation and adds $10 million to help uninsured people get addiction treatment. (AP Photo/Matt York)
(AP Photo/Matt York)
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is one of only six American governors with an annual salary of less than $100,000 based on figures from valuewalk.com.
Ducey’s low salary runs in harmony with nationwide numbers that show Republican governors average less than their Democratic counterparts.
Republicans average $128,327 in annual salary, which is over $30,000 more than Ducey’s salary listed at $95,000.
Both figures pale in comparison to Democrats who average $146,221.
Throughout the country there are 33 Republican governors, 16 Democrats and one Independent. This year there are 36 gubernatorial seats up for grabs.
Governor Ducey was elected in 2014 and sworn in early in 2015. He will be be up for re-election in November of 2018.
