City officials have taken the first step to increase the pay of 11 city workers to the minimum level of a proposed new salary scale. Driving this plan is the city’s hope to be more competitive with other similar-sized municipalities in the hiring of employees.
The Columbus City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve a salary ordinance that provides salary ranges for city positions using minimum, midpoint and maximum levels.
Columbus hired Total Reward Solutions, McCordsville, to evaluate the salaries of 428 full-time city employees that compared them to similar positions at other similarly sized cities across Indiana.
Salary studies had been done under previous administrations, but no evidence had been found of findings ever being implemented, city officials said.
The goal of the salary study was to make Columbus more competitive since it has struggled with recruitment and retention, said Mary Ferdon, executive director of administration and community development. The firm was paid more than $72,000 for its work to evaluate city workers’ pay.
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