§ 12-17-81 — (Effective January 1, 2025) Annual Salary

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) ANNIVERSARY DATE. Annually, the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January.
(2) CIRCUIT CLERKS. All circuit clerks in the Unified Judicial System and the Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Bessemer Division in the Tenth Judicial Circuit.
(3) PAY PLAN. The pay plan adopted by the Unified Judicial System personnel system, or its successor entity, providing the pay range with steps, as the same may be amended from time to time.
(4) STATE SALARY. The annual salary of circuit clerks and district clerks payable from the State Treasury.
(b) Effective beginning with the term of office commencing in January 2025, the annual salary of circuit clerks who first take office by appointment or election on or after that date payable from the State Treasury shall be fixed at step one of pay grade 86 of the pay plan and the annual salary of circuit clerks serving in office prior to that date and continuing to serve who are receiving a salary in pay grade 84 shall be fixed at the corresponding step in pay grade 86 of the pay plan. Thereafter, the state salary of circuit clerks shall be increased annually on the anniversary date, by one step on the pay plan until the maximum step authorized by the pay plan is reached.
(c) This section shall not diminish any local supplement provided to a circuit clerk pursuant to any general or local act in effect on of the effective date of the act adding this language; provided further that nothing in this section shall increase any local supplement. In no event shall the annual state salary of any circuit clerk be diminished by this section.

Legislative History

(Acts 1984, 1st. Ex. Sess., No. 84-731, p. 67, §§1, 2; Acts 1987, No. 87-750, p. 1473; Acts 1991, No. 91-471, p. 855, §1; Act 98-301, p. 494, §1; Act 2023-116, §1; Act 2023-117, §1.)