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Brentwood presents pay study, board directs staff to cost patrol regrade; second reading set for Sept. 3
Summary
City consultants recommended moving nonuniform pay toward the 60th percentile, estimating roughly $983,000 in direct salary cost and about $1.45 million including benefits; the board instructed staff (7–1) to calculate the cost of moving patrol officers up one grade and scheduled a second reading for Sept. 3.
City staff and consultants presented a compensation study to the Board of Aldermen on Aug. 19 recommending the city move its nonuniformed pay philosophy to the 60th percentile and use a multi-year CPI mechanism to limit future drift.
Karen Campbell of GatePoint HR summarized the methodology used for the study, saying staff expanded their comparator pool, collected responses from 24 organizations, and used measures such as service offerings, local demographics and job-knowledge metrics to assign grades and steps. Campbell said the recommended move to the 60th percentile would prioritize raises for specific positions in stages and listed four prioritized groups of positions with corresponding cost buckets.
Campbell reported the total financial impact as presented in the meeting transcript as roughly $983,000 (the spoken transcript figure was ambiguous)…
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