GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
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SENATE BILL 631
Short Title: Juvenile Justice Workforce Fix/Funds. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Bradley, Theodros, and Smith (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT AWARDING A LE GISLATIVE SALARY INCREASE FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE 2
STAFF AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1.(a) Effective July 1, 2025, there is appropriated from the General Fund 5
to the Department of Public Safety, Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the 6
sum of ten million four hundred thousand dollars ($10,400,000) in recurring funds for the 7
2025-2026 fiscal year and the sum of fourteen million one hundred thousand dollars 8
($14,100,000) in recurring funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to be allocated for employee salary 9
increases as awarded by Section 2 of this act. 10
SECTION 1.(b) Of the funds appropriated in subsection (a) of this section, the sum 11
of three million nine hundred thousand dollars ($3,900,000) shall be allocated to reduce salary 12
compression in connection with these increases. 13
SECTION 2.(a) Effective for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium, the following annual 14
salary schedules shall be in effect for Youth Counselor Technicians, Youth Services Behavioral 15
Specialists, and Youth Counselors in the Division of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 16
Prevention: 17
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Fiscal Year 2025-26 19
Years of Experience Youth Youth Services Youth 20
Counselor Behavioral Counselors21
Technicians Specialists 22
0 $40,908 $42,254 $45,910 23
1 $43,771 $45,211 $48,354 24
2 $46,398 $47,972 $51,256 25
3 $48,718 $50,320 $53,818 26
4 $50,665 $52,333 $55,971 27
5 $52,186 $53,902 $57,650 28
6+ $53,230 $54,981 $58,803 29
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Fiscal Year 2026-27 31
Years of Experience Youth Youth Services Youth 32
Counselor Behavioral Counselors 33
Technicians Specialists 34
0 $42,953 $44,367 $48,206 35
1 $45,960 $47,472 $50,772 36 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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2 $48,718 $50,371 $53,819 1
3 $51,154 $52,836 $56,509 2
4 $53,198 $54,950 $58,770 3
5 $54,795 $56,597 $60,533 4
6+ $55,892 $57,730 $61,743 5
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SECTION 2.(b) Effective for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium, the following annual 7
salary schedules shall be in effect for Juvenile Court Counselors in the Division of Juvenile 8
Justice and Delinquency Prevention: 9
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Years of Juvenile Juvenile 11
Experience Court Court 12
Counselors Counselors 13
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FY 2025-26 FY 2026-27 15
0 $49,391 $51,861 16
1 $52,601 $55,231 17
2 $56,021 $58,822 18
3 $59,662 $62,645 19
4 $63,541 $66,718 20
5 $67,670 $71,054 21
6+ $72,070 $75,674 22
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SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes 24
law. 25