Associated Press

OREGON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker isn't saying what he thinks about one of his former top aides getting a double-digit pay raise in her new job as chief information technology officer for the state public defender's office.

Walker was asked Tuesday about Cindy Archer's raise. He said questions about Archer's raise need to be answered by the public defender's office because he has no control over what it pays its workers.

Archer is making $113,459 a year after the raise she got when moving into the new position.

Her hourly salary is $54.34 an hour. That's an 11.7 percent increase from the $48.62 per hour she was making previously as the office's administrative services director and 31 percent more than her predecessor, Gail Zaucha, earned. Zaucha left the post in March.

Archer was one of Walker's top aides when he was Milwaukee County executive. After he became governor, she became deputy secretary of the Department of Administration, where she made $124,000. She resigned in August 2011 and took a $25,000 pay cut to become a legislative liaison for the state Department of Children and Families.

FBI agents raided Archer's home in September 2011 as part of a John Doe probe into illegal campaign work in Walker's county office. That investigation has since closed. Archer was part of an inner circle of county and gubernatorial campaign staff that regularly traded messages using private emails through a secret router set up in Walker's office to get around Wisconsin's open records laws. The investigation led to six convictions.

Neither Archer nor Walker was charged with any wrongdoing.