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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 6/03/2013 Item No.: 14.a Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Implement Classification & Compensation Study Recommendations B ACKGROUND 1 During the April 8th meeting, Council was provided a presentation on the results from the classification and 2 compensation study for the non-union exempt and non-exempt groups. Staff and Springsted consultant and 3 Vice President, Ann Antonsen reviewed the methodology used to analyze the data and to identify the 10 4 Cities most similar to Roseville with the greatest amount of similar positions. The benchmark positions 5 within varying grades of Roseville’s pay systems were then established by discarding any anomalies and 6 the extremes while trying to still include a position from each grade where possible. The recommendations 7 within this request do not include the paid on call fire staff. Due to ongoing market considerations and 8 other related variables, paid on-call fire staff will not be presented until a later meeting. 9 Council directed staff to bring back more detail on the current pay programs and further detail on how 10 the results of the survey where derived. Staff has returned with this information as shown in the 11 attachments. 12 PO OLICYBJECTIVE 13 Staff and Springsted consultants believe that the current job evaluation system and pay structure is fair 14 and equitable, but in need of some recalibration to achieve the Council’s strategic directive of 15 developing an even compensation structure for union and non-union employees. This belief that the job 16 evaluation system and pay structure is fair is evidenced by the City’s high score received by the state 17 during pay equity reporting and the consistency of grade discrepancies to the market in the study no 18 matter what grade or position is being reviewed (with few exceptions). 19 20 BI UDGETMPLICATIONS 21 To a service organization especially, staff is an asset much the same as the equipment used to provide 22 services. Without a focus to maintain the organizations assets they decline in value and end production 23 output. Thus, a balance of funding for all asset classes needs to be achieved. 24 25 It was discussed as follows at the August 27, 2012 meeting to approve conducting the study, “Beyond 26 the study costs there will be implementation costs dependent on the outcomes of the study that will 27 need contingency funding.” The anticipated outcomes, if similar to those found in our last study 28 conducted in 2002, could be up to $150,000 to achieve both internal and external equity.” 29 30 We actually came in a bit higher than was anticipated as is shown in the study. The pay systems 31 benchmarks included in this discussion are 4.6% under the market on average. Each percentile 32 Page 1 of 2