Amid a fiscal crisis that has led to two massive tax hikes in the last two years, Dauphin County is shelling out nearly $330,000 per year on salaries, benefits and pensions to attorneys who work part-time for the county row offices.
Dauphin County has six solicitor positions for five of its elected row offices, which include the coroner, prothonotary and sheriff. It’s not unusual for Pennsylvania counties to have solicitors for each of its row offices, but it is unusual for each of the solicitors to get full benefits and a pension.
It’s a perk no other third-class county offers across the state, PennLive found after speaking with each county and submitting right-to-know requests. Dauphin County taxpayers are paying nearly three times what York County pays its row office solicitors, despite York County being 62% larger than Dauphin County…