Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 485.060 - Compensation of reporters1. Each court reporter for a circuit judge shall receive an annual salary of twenty-six thousand nine hundred dollars beginning January 1, 1985, until December 31, 1985, and beginning January 1, 1986, an annual salary of thirty thousand dollars.2. Such annual salary shall be modified by any salary adjustment provided by section 476.405.3. Beginning January 1, 2022, the annual salary, as modified under section 476.405, shall be adjusted upon meeting the minimum number of cumulative years of service as a court reporter with a circuit court of this state by the following schedule: (1) For each court reporter with zero to five years of service: the annual salary shall be increased only by any salary adjustment provided by section 476.405;(2) For each court reporter with six to ten years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by the whole sum of five and one-quarter percent in addition to the increase provided by subdivision (1) of this subsection;(3) For each court reporter with eleven to fifteen years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by the whole sum of eight and one-quarter percent in addition to the increase provided by subdivision (2) of this subsection;(4) For each court reporter with sixteen to twenty years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by the whole sum of eight and one-half percent in addition to the increase provided by subdivision (3) of this subsection; or(5) For each court reporter with twenty-one or more years of service: the annual salary shall be increased by the whole sum of eight and three-quarters percent in addition to the increase provided by subdivision (4) of this subsection.4. Salaries shall be payable in equal monthly installments on the certification of the judge of the court or division in whose court the reporter is employed. If paid by the state, the salaries of such court reporters shall be paid in semimonthly or monthly installments, as designated by the commissioner of administration.Amended by 2023 Mo. Laws, SB 103,s A, eff. 8/28/2023.Amended by 2021 Mo. Laws, HB 271,s A, eff. 8/28/2021.