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Consider and take action on a resolution to approve and adopt a new salary grade chart for non-civil service employees and a new salary step chart for civil service employees (Director of Human Resources & Civil Service)
Background:
Approval of this resolution will adopt a new salary grade chart for non-civil service employees and a new salary step chart for civil service employees as result of the Compensation market analysis conducted by Segal Waters Consulting.
On April 26, 2017, Council approved a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement with Segal Waters Consulting to perform a compensation and classification study.
The last time a compensation study was completed in the City was in 2011, with implementation occurring in 2012. While a recommendation was made to review structure competitiveness at least every two years, and make adjustments to the salary ranges as appropriate, this was only done on a very limited basis. As a result, most of the ranges remained unchanged except for an annual COLA adjustment (2-3% depending on the year) in salary ranges for Public Safety Civil Service employees and merit increases for non-Civil Service employees. Adjustments made in 2012 were done based solely on years of service with a cap of salary adjustments at midpoint. At the beginning of the Segal Compensation Study, this concern was regularly raised as employees attended the kick-off meetings for data collection and questionnaire collection.
Segal Waters reviewed the City’s current classification and compensation system in comparison to 16 like cities in Texas as selected by management and Council, collected survey data of external labor market(s) for all City positions, and analyzed and evaluated that data objectively, making recommendations to ensure both internal equity and external competitiveness which may result in changes or adoption of a newly designed compensation system.
While the estimated completion was scheduled ...
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