HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania law that delivers automatic pay raises for state officials will pay dividends next year. The law will give more than 1,300 officials a pay raise of 3.5% in 2024. That includes Gov. Josh Shapiro, 253 lawmakers and seven state Supreme Court justices. A 1995 law ties wage hikes to year-over-year increases in consumer prices for mid-Atlantic urban areas, as determined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s on pace to amount to a bigger increase than the increase in private sector wages. The new, higher salaries are effective Jan. 1 for the executive and judicial branches, and Dec. 1 for lawmakers.