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Employment agency seeks $1.9M for pay and retention; CCWD proposes $10.3M portal to link education and jobs
Summary
Director Floyd presented DEW’s FY26 personnel requests and the Coordinating Council for Workforce Development’s proposal for a statewide education‑to‑work portal, with Gartner estimating an initial $10.3 million procurement and $22–31 million total cost over five years.
Director Floyd, executive director of the Department of Employment and Workforce and chair of the Coordinating Council for Workforce Development, told the Senate Finance Transportation and Regulatory Subcommittee that DEW is requesting roughly $1.9 million in recurring state funds to cover prior statewide pay raises and to create a retention program for high‑performing staff, and that the CCWD seeks a centralized education and workforce portal to improve pathways from school to jobs.
Floyd said the $1.9 million recurring request breaks into about $1.1 million to cover the FY25 2.25 percent general salary increase and the remaining portion of earlier raises (the General Assembly previously covered about 56 percent of a prior 5 percent increase) and roughly $770,000 to fund pay supplements for top performers to reduce turnover.
“We have high performers,” Floyd said,…
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