CHARLESTON — State employees will get a raise in the Fiscal Year 2027 budget, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Thursday.

“We will have a pay raise for state employees, period,” he said during a press conference at the Capitol. “That’s going to include teachers. That’s going to include school service personnel. That’s going to include our hard-working State Police and so many of the people, the correction officers, who are working hard every day to make West Virginia a better place to live, to work and to play.”

Morrisey said he could not provide more specifics about the raise at this time but will be working with legislators on a package ahead of releasing the budget in January.

The governor said “tough decisions” he made over the last year are starting to pay off.

“I think it’

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