For those who have questioned the County Employee raises...

Here's some actual numbers for you. I'd really like to hear some rsponse.

This is a quote from Commissioner Frady's responses to The Citizen's questions that I believe bears repeating:

Other than 4 part time hourly library workers, the raises are as follows:

This is being afforded by no "pay for performance" this year and no cost of living adjustments for the next two years.H-R reports a nice reduction in turnover since implementing these adjustments.

So in a county of approx 700 employees, approx 23% (those at the bottom of the pay scale) received the greatest raises. Another approx 31% received raises that were less than 1/3 of the previous groups percentage.

The remaining 55% received, at the most, a 1.88% raise, if that. For many of those at the upper levels of pay, it was their first non-COLA raise in years, as they had been topped out on the pay scale for quite awhile. Do you know what a 1.88% raise is for someone making $40,000? About $29 a paycheck (26 paychecks a year). And that's it for them (and everyone else) for the next 2 years.

I know that no blogger who is not a county employee has shown to be in agreement with these raises, at all. But the county is NOT the only one getting raises. There are still big companies giving them, too (like Delta), for some of the same reasons the county did.

The higher pay flaw

Submitted by wpb1310 on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 12:31pm.

It is widely known that higher pay doesn't retain employees. People quit the boss not the job. Unfortunately government managers do not have the skills necessary to build a team atmosphere. More money is a band-aid because the culture is the same.

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Amen

Submitted by zoes on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 11:37am.

"Happy 4th to every one except the illegals."

'nuff said.

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