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Dade City staff present pay-study proposal; commission agrees new pay plan, limits COLA for recent hires
Summary
City staff presented a pay study and proposed pay plan that would set a $15-per-hour base, adjust pay ranges and trigger a regular study cadence; commissioners directed staff to adopt the proposed pay plan and agreed that employees hired within 365 days of Oct. 1 will not receive that year’s cost-of-living adjustment.
Dade City staff presented a pay-study report and a proposed pay plan during a city commission budget workshop that would raise the city’s base hourly pay to $15, change pay ranges across job classes and set a two‑year cadence for future pay studies.
The plan was developed by HR staff after comparing Dade City job classifications with neighboring municipalities and running a range calculation for minimums, midpoints and maximums. “I was asked to perform the pay study,” HR staff member Miss Dyson told the commission, and described collecting pay plans from New Port Richey, Port Richey, Zephyrhills, Brooksville and Newberry. Dyson said she set the proposed base at $15 to align with state minimum‑wage increases and to avoid repeating the study next year.
The proposal would: set $15 as the city’s base hourly rate (the city’s current base is $13), adjust each pay grade with 5% differentials between grades, compute midpoints as averages between minimum and maximum, and apply a…
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