Cindy Archer, longtime aide to Scott Walker, gets new job, huge raise

Source: WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

A longtime aide to Gov. Scott Walker has a new state job that pays her 31 percent more than what her predecessor made last year.

Cindy Archer was selected as the top candidate for chief information officer for the State Public Defender’s Office.

In September 2011, her Madison home was raided as part of a now-closed John Doe investigation that led to six convictions of former Walker aides and associates. She was Walker’s administrative services director in Milwaukee County, and after he became governor she has held a series of jobs in various state agencies, including second in command at the key Department of Administration.

With the move, Archer’s annual salary rose to $113,459, or $54.34 per hour, which in 2013 would have made her the sixth-highest paid IT manager in state government, according to state salary records. It’s an 11.7 percent raise from the $48.62 per hour she was making previously as the agency’s administrative services director, a position that will remain vacant, public defender’s office spokesman Randy Kraft said.




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