Governor Josh Shapiro’s salary rose to nearly $246,000 this year per a state law that guarantees state lawmakers, judges and top executive branch officials automatic pay raises in 2025.

The Abington resident becomes the second highest-paid governor in the country behind New York’s governor. More than 1,300 officials—including all 253 lawmakers and all seven state Supreme Court justices—will get a pay raise of 3.4%, according to the Associated Press.

The raise represents the fourth straight year that state officials saw a bigger percentage increase than private sector workers, compared with hourly earnings data.

In related news, Shapiro’s administration filed a complaint this week with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against power grid manager PJM Interconnection which supplies Pennsylvania.

According to the complaint, PJM Interconnection’s “capacity auction” practices could cost consumers billions of dollars.

From the Pittsburgh Gazette’s coverage:

In the complaint against PJM, Mr. Shapiro told FERC that if changes are not made to PJM’s approach to capacity auctions, there could be “over $20 billion in unnecessary energy costs for Pennsylvanians and consumers across the region.” PJM, in a statement late Monday, said it was fundamentally a supply-and-demand problem that is pushing up prices and a driver is “policy choices that are pushing resources off the system along with data center and electrification demand growth.”

PJM said it has been talking to the Shapiro administration and has made filings with FERC on potential system changes.

The full complaint is below:

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