AGENDA DATE: 9/5/2018
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Public Safety Pay Plan
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Request approval of Public Safety Pay Plan
ITEM TYPE: Regular Action Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Walker, Kamptner, Gerome, Robb
PRESENTER (S): Lorna Gerome, Dana Robb, Brooke Conover
LEGAL REVIEW: Yes
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: Human Resources conducts position classification reviews in each department on a rotating basis. Public Safety departments were last reviewed in 2012 and are on the schedule for review this year. Based on this review, staff recommends implementing step scales for most of the sworn/essential positions in these four departments.
Starting in July 2017, a team of representatives from Police, Fire-Rescue, Emergency Communications Center, Sheriff, and Human Resources met frequently to create an equitable and predictable public safety pay scale structure for each department to attract and retain quality talent. The following principles guided the work in developing the pay plans and standard operating procedures (Attachment A):
* Create and design pay scales that value the contributions of our employees.
* Create and design pay scales that are competitive with our market.
* Where it makes sense, have consistency across all public safety pay scales (i.e., same step increases, include equivalent positions when possible).
* Create pay scales that are easy to administer and explain.
The team, with guidance from Titan Gallagher Consulting, developed step scales that would be easy to understand, transparent, and predictable, as they are based on years of experience. We used market data from our Joint Board Adopted Market, which consists of 27 Virginia localities, and worked to ensure that we were using appropriate position matches (Attachment B).
STRATEGIC PLAN: Quality Government Operations: Ensure County government's capacity to provide high quality service that achieves community priorities.
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