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City consultant recommends pay-scale changes; proposed cost ~ $3.13 million including benefits
Summary
A consultant reported that East Point’s pay ranges trail the market and recommended a hybrid parity approach for general government staff and a 15-step time-in-rank plan for public safety, with an estimated annual cost—including benefits—of about $3.13 million.
A consultant told the East Point City Council on April 14 that the city’s pay ranges are below market and recommended citywide changes to classification and compensation to improve recruitment and retention.
Mark Holcomb, project manager for Evergreen Solutions, presented results from phase 2 of a compensation and classification study. He said the market-comparison work showed the city’s pay ranges were generally 15–30% below the market median for comparable metro employers in the sample. "The market results did indicate that the city was below the market," Holcomb said.
For general government positions, Evergreen recommended a "hybrid parity" implementation—an approach the city used in phase 1—to place affected employees into updated pay ranges…
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