People with Reno government jobs may not be making enough money.
Johnson & Associates, of Sacramento, Calif., recently completed a study stating wages paid by the City of Reno are below market salary levels for about 80 different job categories, and the study encourages increasing the pay ranges of 735 city employees.
The study found 83 jobs that were below market salary levels, according to an article by SignOnSanDiego. Bringing those salary ranges to the market median would cost the city $846,542 over the next three years. City Council members are scheduled to review the findings Nov. 10.
Most of the pay increases could be delayed until July as Stationary Engineers Local 39, representing 504 workers, is “sensitive to the current economic climate,” according to a city report.
The higher pay ranges would be on top of cost-of-living adjustments and salary increased, both which have already been approved. The COLA increases and step increases, averaging 7 percent, cost the city about $8.2 million this fiscal year.
The pay raises continue as most city employees are under five-year contracts expiring in 2010 or 2011, granting them 2.1 cost-of-living percent increases every six months.
Initially, city employees gained 4 percent, plus annual raises, to make up for the lack of raises given during the recession in the early 1990s. Since the current fiscal year began in July, the city has used $2 million of a nearly $12 million rainy day fund, and expects to use more in the future.
In July, the first sales, alcohol and other related tax payments of the fiscal year from the state were $4 million, 11 percent less than the $4.4 million of 2007. This is causing city accountants to worry the record number of foreclosures could prompt a delay in receiving property taxes.
To deal with declining revenues and job losses, the council will be asked to consider a list of new cuts. General fund spending, totaling $189 million, is $3 million smaller than last year’s budget. It presumes 120 jobs among the city’s 1,866 authorized positions will remain vacant for the fiscal year that began July 1.
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