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Subcommittee acknowledges DAS compensation plan changes for engineering classifications
Summary
The Joint Ways and Means subcommittee on General Government formally received a Department of Administrative Services report on classification and selective pay changes affecting several engineering positions, then sent the report to the full committee.
Co Chair opened the subcommittee work session on May 29, 2025, and the Department of Administrative Services presented a required report on changes to the state compensation plan for engineering classifications. Erin Haney, State Labor Relations Manager at the Department of Administrative Services, told the panel, “We are here to report compensation plan changes for some of our engineering classifications.”
The report, submitted under a cited Oregon statute, described reclassifications and selective salary increases following a classification review and market evaluation. Haney said the review led to establishing new classifications and “some of them moved up, which is a selective salary increase.”
Members asked whether the positions are funded separately from services-and-supplies budgets and whether the classifications affect Department of Transportation headcount. Haney clarified these engineering positions are primarily within the Department of Transportation and that DAS “set[s] the rates of pay for these classifications in line with the market, but we don't have a role in the funding for that.”
Co Chair told the committee the reported cost of the classification adjustments is $586,000 and said the “vast majority of it is made up of other funds,” which the Co Chair said would likely be internal Department of Transportation revenue streams. Committee members requested additional detail on recruitment challenges for engineers and a breakdown of funding sources.
By unanimous consent the subcommittee acknowledged receipt of the report and agreed to forward it to the full Joint Committee on Ways and Means with the Legislative Fiscal Office recommendation. The motion to send the report forward was made on the record and approved without recorded objections.
The subcommittee also asked staff to provide follow-up information on hiring and recruitment pressures for engineering classifications and the specific funding sources used to pay the reported cost increases.
