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McCracken County sheriff urges COLA fix, incentive pay and two more deputies amid staffing losses
Summary
Sheriff Jones told the McCracken County Fiscal Court on Oct. 27 that pay-grid design and rising call volume are weakening recruitment and retention, and he recommended applying COLA to the official pay grid, modest incentive pay expansions and the addition of deputies.
Sheriff Jones presented staffing and compensation concerns to the McCracken County Fiscal Court on Oct. 27, urging changes to the pay grid, modest incentive payments for specific roles and the addition of deputies to meet rising call volume.
Key points Sheriff Jones raised included: comparative starting pay in neighboring agencies (Paducah, Benton, Calvert City and Graves County), recent departures of deputies to higher-paying jurisdictions, and discrepancies caused when cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) were granted to incumbent employees but not applied to the underlying pay grid used for new hires.
He described the operational effect: the office handles much higher call volume than in prior years and occasionally has only three or four deputies on duty to cover the…
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