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Farmers Branch recommends pay‑range overhaul and targeted raises to close gaps for skilled labor
Summary
A human-resources presentation recommended rebuilding pay ranges by job family, normalizing minimums at 20% below midpoint, using a quartile-based raise strategy and applying a 3% across-the-board step increase for police and fire; staff said the study covered 103 positions.
Jeffrey Ross, deputy director of human resources, briefed the council on May 21 on a market-based compensation study and a proposed pay strategy designed to improve recruitment and retention across the city’s workforce.
Ross said staff studied 103 positions—well above the 67 positions his team calculated were required for a statistically significant sample—and matched municipal peers and private-sector datasets. “We studied 103,” Ross said, describing a methodology that used a market median for each job midpoint, set a range minimum 20% below midpoint and a maximum 20% above…
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