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-4- Attachment 7 shows merit increases awarded to date in Fiscal Year 1990 -91. This is partial year data only. There is some lag time between the employee's performance review date and the date the completed work plan and any personnel action are received in Personnel so this data may change as the fiscal year is completed. Attachment 7 shows that the average of all merit increases awarded to date is 4.2 percent and that 68.7 percent of employees have received an increase. The County automated merit increase data effective July 1, 1990. Over the past months Personnel has worked with Data Processing to set up reports on the merit increase program. This data is shown in Attachment 7. Merit data was not automated prior to July 1, 1990. Such information could be produced only by manual calculation from each employee's personnel file. Thus comparative data for past years is not available. For Fiscal Year 199192 Personnel surveyed the merit increase programs of nine other public employers in this area for comparison. These employers are: Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, City of Durham, Durham County, Greensboro, OWASA, City of Raleigh and Wake County. All of these have proposed a merit pay program for Fiscal Year 1991 -92 except Durham County. Of the eight with a merit program, six provide for a minimum merit increase of 2.5 percent as does Orange County. One provides for a one percent minimum and one sets no minimum. As to maximum merit increase, the policies varied more. The maximums ranged from 2.5 percent to no maximum except the top of the salary range. Of the eight, six provide for a maximum merit increase of seven percent or higher. Orange County's maximum is a five percent salary increase plus a 2.5 percent bonus which does not become a part of salary.