California’s legislators and other top elected officials — already among the nation’s highest paid — received annual salary increases Monday ranging from $3,110 to $8,776, the Sacramento Bee reports.

Attorney General Jerry Brown and Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell received the highest pay hikes, 5 percent, jumping their salaries to $184,301.

Pay for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, state lawmakers and all other constitutional officers rose by 2.75 percent, a little less than the state’s cost of living in 2006, records show.

Schwarzenegger does not accept a state salary, but if he ever changes his mind, Monday’s vote will increase his pay from $206,500 to $212,179.

The pay increases were approved 6-0 by the California Citizens Compensation Commission, an independent panel of gubernatorial appointees created by voter approval of Proposition 112 in 1990. The higher salaries will take effect Dec. 3.

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