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Staff proposes $25,000 salary survey; council weighs 2.5% COLA
Summary
City staff proposed hiring a consultant to run a full compensation survey (vendor: Public Sector Personnel Consultants) to inform a pay plan; staff also proposed a 2.5% cost‑of‑living adjustment in the draft budget and recommended prioritizing hourly/lower‑paid employees in implementation.
Staff proposed contracting with Public Sector Personnel Consultants to conduct a comprehensive salary survey that would gather employee job narratives and produce comparisons with peer cities, with a report targeted for spring 2027.
"This would be a professional service and they would conduct a salary survey of our employees," staff said, describing a process that emphasizes employee participation and apples‑to‑apples comparisons. The project would add roughly $25,000 to the administration budget and aim to focus initial implementation on hourly workers and lower‑paid employees.
Council discussed whether prior surveys or AI techniques could supply sufficient data, and members stressed the need to verify any automatically generated comparisons. Staff said the draft budget includes a 2.5% COLA and that the survey is intended to be proactive rather than reactive to recruitment or retention problems.
