Greens MP Mark Parnell says it is unfair that South Australian politicians will get a pay rise of nearly 7 per cent.
Federal MPs have been awarded an increase of 6.7 per cent and Mr Parnell says that will automatically be passed on to state MPs from next month.
Mr Parnell says other public sector employees have to take industrial action to win pay rises.
"There's no decision to be made at a state level, it's an automatic increase, and that's not fair," he said.
"SA politicians will be getting 14 per cent over two years and that's what the nurses are having to take industrial action to get, 14 per cent over two years.
"All workers should have their salaries adjusted according to inflation but there is no justification for the politicians to go ahead in leaps and bounds far ahead of inflation and far ahead of other workers."
A State Government official says MPs' wages are determined by an independent tribunal, not by the Government.
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