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West Lafayette hears Baker Tilly study proposing new pay framework for city staff
Summary
Consultants from Baker Tilly presented a citywide compensation and classification study that proposes an open-range pay plan and four implementation scenarios; the firm recommended adopting a baseline system now and phasing larger adjustments later as lawmakers and budget projections allow.
Baker Tilly consultants presented a months-long compensation classification study to the West Lafayette City Common Council on April 6, outlining a new pay-plan framework intended to standardize job titles, evaluate positions by a point-factor tool and align pay ranges to market benchmarks.
Jada Kent, the project lead, said the study focused on measuring positions, not people, and combined internal job evaluation with market data from public and private peer organizations. "This is a measurement of the position, not the person," Kent said, describing a nine-factor job-evaluation tool and a regression analysis used to map job-evaluation scores to market midpoints.
Consultant Eric Walsh told the…
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