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County reviews pay levels
County supervisors next Tuesday will again take up the issue of what to do about bringing some county jobs up to market pay levels.
During a Monday work session, they reviewed a compensation and position classification study prepared by Springsted Inc.’s Richmond office that shows 22 positions below market minimums. To adjust those upward would cost $59,906, the firm’s senior vice president, John Anzivino, wrote in a Feb. 25 letter to County Administrator David Ash.
But that cost could be reduced to $21,512 by eliminating comparisons of the county’s positions with those in neighboring Fauquier County and the City of Winchester, Anzivino noted.
When it initially received the study last month, the Board of Supervisors asked the company to drop those two localities to see whether that would have any effect on the pay grade calculations. It reduced the number of jobs below market level to 12.
“We will do what we can,” Chairman John Staelin said.
The county’s budget for fiscal 2009, which begins July 1, includes approximately $36,000 to cover the cost of the recommended adjustments. Citing the tight budget outlook, that means those increases may have to be done over a couple years, Staelin said.
The study made comparisons with government jobs in Fauquier, Page, Shenandoah, and Warren counties in Virginia and Berkeley County, W.Va., as well as the cities of Winchester and Front Royal, and the Clarke County Public Schools.
Contact the reporter at rmarlow@timespapers.com
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