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Trinidad council adopts job classification plan, approves immediate 10% pay increase for staff
Summary
The City Council approved a job classification and compensation study by Regional Government Services and a 10% across‑the‑board salary increase effective immediately, and directed staff to develop a phased plan to bring pay closer to market medians.
The City of Trinidad Council on Oct. 14 adopted a 2025 job classification plan and compensation policy prepared by Regional Government Services (RGS) and approved a 10% salary increase across city staff effective immediately as the first step toward aligning pay with market medians.
The study and the pay action respond to what city management described as long‑standing inequities and recruitment and retention risks in the city’s pay structure. City Manager Gabe (last name not specified in the record) told the council RGS ‘‘developed a legitimate job index, searches and titles that match the duties’’ and that the alignment gap across classifications ranged roughly from about 15% to 33% compared with market medians.
RGS classification and compensation adviser Patty Howard explained the firm’s methodology: it updated job descriptions, matched those descriptions to comparable positions at peer agencies and then used the median of that peer group as the central…
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