S.C. lottery audit shows N.C pay is generous

Monday, December 26, 2005 posted 10:18 AM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. An audit released this month to the South Carolina General Assembly shows top lottery employees in North Carolina will be among the best paid in the country.

Auditors in South Carolina compared pay of the director and top deputy in South Carolina with their counterparts in other states. They found the Palmetto State salaries to be higher than many comparable officials in other states.

But the pay in North Carolina is even higher than in South Carolina.

North Carolina lottery director Tom Shaheen will be paid 235-thousand dollars a year.

His highest-paid deputies so far will earn 125-thousand to 130-thousand dollars a year. That's more than most directors are paid elsewhere.

South Carolina auditors say the median pay of lottery directors in all 18 states they studied was about 123-thousand dollars. For deputies, it was about 105-thousand dollars.

Tennessee and Georgia are the highest-paying lottery states by far. They were what North Carolina looked to when picking a range of pay for its lottery employees.

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