Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 3, 2000 <br />Action Age a <br />Item No. ~~ <br />SUBJECT: Lowest„Salaried Employee Pay <br />DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1 -Federal Poverty Guidelines <br />2 -Background Income Data <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director, <br />Extension 2550 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9fi8~501 <br />Durham 688.7331 <br />Mebane 33fi-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider possible steps to improve pay for the County's lowest salaried <br />permanent employees in follow up to the Board of Commissioners' June Budget Work Session <br />discussions. <br />BACKGROUND: During the June Budget Work Sessions, the Board of Commissioners <br />requested that the Personnel Director bring back to the Board possible options for the Board's <br />consideration in improving pay for the lowest salaried County employees. The Board set aside <br />a reserve fund of $62,099 in the fiscal year 2000-01 budget to be used for this purpose. <br />In June the Board expressed interest in the specific option of eliminating the County's lowest <br />salary grade (Salary Grade 57) and to move those employees and positions to the next higher <br />salary grade (Grade 58.) Using this option as a starting point, staff has developed two possible <br />steps for the Board's consideration in addressing the salaries of lowest paid employees. These <br />are outlined below along with related background information. <br />Possible Steps <br />Step 1 -Eliminate the County's lowest salary grade (grade 57). Move current employees <br />and positions at that salary grade to the next higher grade (grade 58) and grant a one <br />step (about five percent) salary increase with the move effective July 1, 2000. <br />Presently the County's lowest salary grade is grade 57 with a range from $18,406 (Step 1) to <br />$29,267 (Step 11 B). With this change, the County's lowest salary grade will become grade 58 <br />and this has a range from $19,324 (Step 1) to $30,729 (Step 11B). The lowest salary far a <br />permanent employee would increase from $8.85 an hour to $9.29 an hour. <br />