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3 <br />To provide greater flexibility for department management in <br />maintaining internal equity and granting salary Increases <br />commensurate with individual qualifications. <br />Q To provide consistency between the salary recognition <br />granted for assumption of greater responsibility in the <br />employee's own position as for moving to another position. <br />o To provide greater equity between the salary an internal <br />candidate might receive for promoting to a position in <br />comparison to the salary of a candidate being hired from <br />outside the County. <br />Other Area Employers <br />Personnel surveyed 12 area governmental employers as to their <br />promotion pay handling policy. Attachment 2 shows the survey <br />results. Of Me 12 employers surveyed as to promotion'. <br />a 10 provided for at least a five percent salary increase and <br />two provided for at least 2.5 percent. <br />u Nine provided for a salary Increase greater than five percent <br />or the new minimum and seven provided the latitude for <br />increases greater than 10 percent. <br />As to reclassification, seven of the employers surveyed provide <br />the same pay handling as for promotion. <br />The draft Personnel Ordinance revision is mods most closely <br />after the State government and University at North Carolina at <br />Chapel Hill policies. These policies provide the latitude to take <br />account of qualifications, equity and labor market. <br />Estimated Costs <br />During fiscal year 1997-98 fiscal year, 28 employees received <br />pro notions and six filled positions were reclassified to higher <br />salary grades. Using those as a basis to estimate the cost of the <br />draft promotion and reclassification policy changes, personnel <br />identified that if each of the 28 employees receiving promotions <br />and rec assificabons had repaired one step for each salary <br />grade involvetl in the promotion or reclassification, the additional <br />annual cost would have been about $58,000. <br />