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Public Pay Cuts And Surf Movie Grosses

by Jacob Shafer

April 14, 2011

$1.6 million

Amount raised at the April 10 Kokua For Japan benefit concert on Oahu

6.6

Magnitude of an aftershock that hit Japan’s eastern coast the same day

5 percent

Pay reduction taken by public workers under a tentative deal between the state and the Hawaii Government Employees Association

$124 million

Amount Gov. Abercrombie says the deal—which also ends furloughs and increases the amount employees must pay for benefits—would save the state over the next two years