Title:
Consider and take action on a resolution adopting an updated League City employee pay scale, an updated League City civil service police officer pay scale, and an updated League City EMS pay scale, beginning January 2, 2023 (Director of Human Resources and Civil Service)
Background:
Approval of this item will approve the adaptation, beginning January 2, 2023, of an updated League City employee pay scale, League City civil service police officer pay scale, and League City EMS pay scale.
Evergreen Solutions, LLC was hired in February of 2022 to conduct a classification and compensation study for the City of League City. The study began in earnest, in April, with the classification analysis of data obtained from job assessment tools (JAT’s) completed by League City employees. These JATs were then validated by the respective employee’s supervisor’s, analyzed by Evergreen Solutions, and a summary of the JAT scoring was returned in July.
Following changes recommended by League City to the JAT summary based on our working knowledge of the positions, a market survey was conducted by Evergreen of our target cities, where benchmark data was obtained. Much of this data was readily available as Evergreen was working with or had just completed salary surveys with other cities in our market. The benchmark data and a draft compensation solution were provided to League City in August.
The compensation solution contained recommended pay scale adjustments and determined costs of various options for adjusting salaries to market. The class parity method of adjustment was chosen as this method addresses compression based on time in classification, adjusts for market, and credits employees for time in their classification.
Survey and Pay Grade Assignments
The following cities were identified as targets for benchmark analysis: Allen, Alvin, Baytown, Cedar Park, Conroe, Denton, Friendswood, Galveston, La Porte, Missouri City, Pasadena (for PD only), Pearland, R...
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