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Ad hoc committee recommends modest stipend increases, keeps CPI-based annual adjustments for mayor and council
Summary
The ad hoc mayor and council compensation review committee recommended no change to the CPI-based annual adjustment process, left elected officials’ benefit flexibility intact, and proposed increases to stipends for several appointed boards. The committee’s recommendations are advisory; council took no final action March 17.
Trevor Rusczyk, chair of the ad hoc mayor and council compensation review committee, presented the panel’s advisory report to the Mayor and City Council on March 17.
What the committee recommended Rusczyk said the committee recommends keeping the existing annual adjustment formula that prevents salary decreases and applies an increase equal to the year-over-year change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Washington Metropolitan region (the November comparison). For the current cycle the CPI-U year-over-year change used in the committee’s examples was +1%.
Current pay and benefits the committee cited Rusczyk reviewed current compensation figures…
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