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OLYMPIA — State workers will take a 3 percent pay cut in each of the next two years through unpaid leave in a tentative agreement reached Tuesday with Gov. Chris Gregoire.

The agreement also calls for state workers to pay 15 percent of their health-care premium costs, with the state picking up the other 85 percent in the next two-year budget. That deal, which would apply to all state workers, had been announced earlier in the month. The state currently pays 88 percent of the premium, and state workers pay 12 percent.