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Furor over an approved 7.25 per cent raise for Alberta’s auditor general, child and youth advocate, ethics commissioner and other legislative officers has convinced the committee chairwoman to revisit the issue.

“In consideration of the challenges facing Alberta families and our economy and concerns validly raised by the opposition … I will be calling this committee back together in the coming week to reconsider this decision,” reads a statement from NDP MLA Denise Woollard, chairwoman of the standing committee on legislative offices.

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Woollard and four other NDP committee members voted in favour Wednesday of giving legislative officers raises of 7.25 per cent. Such decisions have been “standard practice” on compensation since 2008, Woollard said in the written statement.

With a 2.25-per-cent cost-of-living allowance, plus an additional five-per-cent raise, the officers — whose salaries ranged between $148,000 and $273,000 a year before the hike — will earn salaries between $152,000 and $287,000.