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JFAC accepts corrected CEC letter clarifying pay recommendations for state IT, all employees
Summary
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee accepted a corrected Committee on Employee Compensation (CEC) recommendation letter clarifying a $1.55 hourly pay increase per full-time position and a separate 4.5% market-based increase for IT and engineering classified employees.
For the record, Frances Lippett, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 13 that a corrected Committee on Employee Compensation (CEC) recommendation letter was necessary to reflect the committee’s actions from the previous week.
The corrections clarify two points: the committee recommended a $1.55-per-hour per full-time position pay increase for state employees and the earlier draft wrongly included a flexibility clause that was not part of the motion. The revised letter also clarifies that the committee’s recommendation of a 4.5% market-based increase for IT and engineering employees is in addition to the $1.55-per-hour increase.
The corrected text was presented to the committee by Frances Lippett of the Legislative Services Office. After a brief question from Representative Petzke about whether the IT and engineering market-based increase applies to staff across agencies, Lippett said the motion adopted by the committee applied to employees on the IT and engineering salary schedule and noted it may not include nonclassified IT and engineering staff who work for constitutional officers.
A committee motion to accept the technical corrections was presented and approved by unanimous consent. The committee chair announced, “Is there an objection? Hearing none, it is so ordered.”
Why it matters: The corrections affect how salary adjustments are communicated to agencies and how line items will be processed in the upcoming program maintenance work. The separate treatment of the hourly increase and the market-based increase for IT and engineering staff clarifies that the two are cumulative as recommended by the CEC.
Details from the meeting: Ms. Lippett said the CEC letter originally included flexibility language that did not reflect the motion that passed the committee. She asked the committee to accept the corrected wording so the letter matched the committee’s action.
Follow-up: The committee accepted the corrected letter by unanimous consent during the Jan. 13 hearing. No further formal votes on the underlying pay recommendations occurred during this session; the corrections concern the wording of the committee’s recommendation letter to be used in the budget process.
