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"This hiring freeze gimmick comes just three weeks after the freeholders and county manager voted themselves a 5.3 percent pay hike to go along with their $12,000 health-benefits package. It is their third pay increase since 2000. Freeholders now earn $29,500 with the chairman earning $31,500 and the vice chairman earning $30,500."
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