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Sheriff urges pay change to avoid compression; discusses MOUs, canine and regional air support arrangements
Summary
Spokane County’s sheriff told commissioners that rising pay for deputies and command staff is compressing the rank structure and proposed setting the sheriff’s pay as a fixed percentage above the under-sheriff to prevent repeated salary catch-up adjustments.
(Note: the sheriff’s name is not given in the transcript; he is referenced by title.)
The sheriff told Spokane County commissioners the salaries of command staff and some deputies have begun to outpace the sheriff’s salary and proposed indexing the sheriff’s pay to be a fixed percentage above the under-sheriff to avoid future “compression.” He discussed operational requests and recent agreements the office seeks to finalize.
Salary proposal and budget effects: the sheriff explained that a pattern over the last 7–8 years has been for commissioned-officer salaries to outpace the sheriff’s pay. He proposed tying the sheriff’s salary to the under-sheriff’s pay, recommending a 5.6% premium above the under-sheriff (the board discussed a 5% alternative). The…
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