City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0103R

• File #: 05-0103R
• Version: 0
• Name: Salary Parity for City Employees - It's Only Fair
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/7/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/8/2005
• Title: Salary Parity for City Employees - It's Only Fair FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Human Resources to conduct a comparison study of salaries paid to City Employees with salaries paid to government workers in the surrounding subdivisions and nearby cities in other states to determine if current levels of compensation are comparable to salaries being paid to employees holding similar positions; and urging the Director to submit the results of the salary parity study to the City Council within 5 months.
• Sponsors: President Young, President Dixon, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Kenneth Harris, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Edward Reisinger, Paula Johnson Branch, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Salaries

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/8/2005	0	City Council	Adopted as Amended	Pass
12/7/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Recommended Favorably	Pass
11/10/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/7/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
11/7/2005	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Salary Parity for City Employees - It's Only Fair

FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Human Resources to conduct a comparison study of salaries paid to City Employees with salaries paid to government workers in the surrounding subdivisions and nearby cities in other states to determine if current levels of compensation are comparable to salaries being paid to employees holding similar positions; and urging the Director to submit the results of the salary parity study to the City Council within 5 months.
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"Adopting Fairer Compensation", an article published in American City and County, states that public sector personnel managers are faced with a shrinking qualified labor pool and significant recruitment and retention challenges because they cannot pay their employees what they deserve, and that there are ample opportunities for current employees to find more lucrative jobs elsewhere.

Although in a lot of instances the principal problem is a shortage of money, equally often, employment polices focusing on internal equity, which seek to ensure that similar jobs have similar salaries regardless of departmental affiliation or other factors, lead to traditional classification systems that ignore the 2 primary factors that drive today's labor economics: productivity (i.e., employee performance) and the relevant market for the employee's function.

To combat employe...