Action regarding Salary Adjustments for Police Department (discussed at 1/17/2023 City Council Meeting)

At the previous council meeting, discussion of salaries within the police department was had. Council requested that we come back with additional information, specifically to the position of Dispatch Supervisor.

The Police Department, like the other department within the city, are significantly behind our neighbors reference to pay. The police department presented a study involving 24 policing agencies, showing our pay to be 13% or more behind the average for those cities. We requested council consider moving eleven sworn officers and two non-sworn employees into their proper step, based on their tenure. During this discussion, we also spoke about our dispatch/records supervisor being more than 35% behind the average of nine agencies that submitted pay information. Council requested that we determine the cost for moving the dispatch/records supervisor and bring those cost back to council.

The 15 year non-sworn employee has tendered his resignation. He will be going to another agency as a dispatch supervisor and will be making close to $20K more than his salary here in Saginaw

To move the original 11 sworn officers and 2 non-sworn would cost:

$33,934.31 + 30% for Benefits = Total cost of $48,477.59

To move our Dispatch/records supervisor from Grade 23 to Grade 26 and then to Step 2 based on tenure:

$8179.21 + 30% for benefits = Total cost of $11,684.59

Total Financial impact for all $60,162.18