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Northampton officials urge pay raises to fill juvenile-center jobs and restore contracted bed revenue
Summary
Officials said staffing shortages have left many of the county—acility—eds empty; raising youth-care-worker pay from about $19.80 to roughly $23 an hour is proposed to restore capacity and the $1–2M of contract revenue that offsets county costs.
Wayne Green, district court administrator, told the Courts & Corrections Committee that Northampton County—an fill more juvenile-center beds and increase contract revenue if the county addresses pay. "We need to raise the salaries of our youth care workers," he said, adding that "The youth care workers right now make about $19.80." Green said a target of about $23 an hour would stabilize staffing and allow the county to operate more beds.
The county runs a mixed detention-and-treatment juvenile facility that currently sells contracted beds to other counties; Green said the center brought in $2.4 million, $1.6 million and $1.8 million in prior…
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