pay raises
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the government’s new pay increase, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga is telling the ASG workforce that he expects to see employees “demonstrating increased levels of professionalism and service” for the people they serve.
The governor’s message was outlined...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu/Talauega Administration’s plan to raise the lower level salaries from $12,000 up to $15,000 to $16,000 also includes raising each salary level until the increases reach the director level, according to Communications Officer, Fiafia Sunia, with the Governor’s...


![Sunia said over the weekend that this is the initial proposed threshold raise — hiking the starting pay scale — and the subsequent pay raise proposals to follow will be pay raises to each respective threshold above until eventually looking at a director's pay raise as well. “In the beginning, when the Governor wanted to initiate these raises coming into office, he knew it would not be possible without completing the rollbacks first. Which was the first phase of the pay raise plan,” he explained. [photo: Linkedin] ASG Communications Officer, Fiafia Sunia](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fiafia_sunia.jpeg?itok=eocn1zqI)