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HR consultant recommends simplified salary schedule; commission requests special meeting
Summary
Nicole, the county's HR consultant, presented a detailed audit of the pay scale, finding an average mismatch of 7.7 steps and recommending moving to a simplified 20-year scale; commissioners voted to request a less complicated salary schedule and scheduled a special meeting to review a draft.
Nicole, the county's human resources consultant, gave a comprehensive review of the current salary model and told the commission the average difference between employees' current pay and where they would sit on the formal step schedule was "7.7 steps." She said the county's 25-step chart contains inconsistent step spacing and multiple ad-hoc adjustments, and recommended moving to a simplified 20-year scale and aging the ranges to bring them current.
Commissioners and department heads weighed trade-offs between market-based hiring needs and budget constraints. The board voted to request a less complicated salary schedule and to hold a special meeting (proposed on Monday the 27th at 8 a.m.) for Nicole to present a draft model with assumptions for 2027. Nicole said she would prepare a model based on the board’s assumptions and noted that internal equity adjustments will still be required for some long-tenured employees.
