More than 31,000 non-union state workers, including University of Wisconsin faculty and academic staff, would have to pay hundreds of dollars more for retirement benefits under a last-minute budget amendment approved by Senate Republicans.
The budget provision would require the workers to pay the first 1.5 percent of their retirement costs, which had previously been picked up by the state, starting Sept. 1.
That means that a worker grossing $40,000 annually, for example, would have to pay $600 a year for the retirement benefits.