Oh look, its another “we’re not keeping up with inflation but want you to think we’re doing something for you” raise:
Dear City Employees:
I have directed the senior management of the City to implement a 1.5% pay raise for all full-time civilian employees to begin in April 2006. Eligible civilian employees will receive the pay hike effective April 1, for municipal pay cycle employees; and April 8, for Fire and Police pay cycle employees. The raises will appear on the checks received April 21 and April 28, respectively.
The 1.5% increase will be given to permanent, full-time civilian employees who were hired/rehired before or on October 1, 2005, and whose most recent Employee Performance Evaluation (EPE) rating is not less than 3.00.
In addition, I will propose a 2.0% pay allocation in the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget. Plans for the pay increase will be implemented at the beginning of the Fiscal Year, or the pay period following Council’s approval of the budget if that occurs after the beginning of the fiscal year. Each department is being asked to submit to me by June 12 a plan for how that money would be allocated. It could include some across-the-board pay increases for defined job categories and/or some merit pay, depending on what plan directors decide best suits the goals of their departments. Part-time employees, while not eligible for the 1.5% general increase, may be included in this FY ’07 plan, based on the recommendation of the management of each department.
You work hard to make City Hall efficient and responsive to those we work for, the citizens of Houston. Thank you. I am proud to be working with you.
Sincerely,
Bill White,
Mayor
For the record, inflation was 3.6% for the local area during calendar year ’05. Gotta wonder if we’d even be getting this if the union fights weren’t going on. I’m sure both of them will take credit for Mayor White’s “generosity.”
Nice, sounds like a private corporation policy.
Mine maxes out at a 3% possible raise for this year.
Fun stuff.
(and not to nit-pick, well OK to nit-pick, but it’s Isolated Desolation – I gave up being Desperate after the Oilers left town)
🙂
S.
Ok, will fix ASAP – sorry for the error! –ubu
Yes, it’s definately being “run like a business.” However, I forgot to mention a key fact. While the two
raisespay increases combined, assuming I got them both (I should, my score is more than high enough) would be 3.5% and inflation last year was 3.6%….There were no
raisespay increases in 2005,* and the prior year’s inflation was 3.5%. This is SOP. We go 2-3 years betweenraisespay increases, and it barely (maybe) keeps up with inflation in that year. For the rest, we just get to pinch pennies that much harder. It’s been that way since Whitmire.*Full disclaimer, some directors squeezed their budgets to give 1% pay raises to a very few people with the highest average scores; if you didn’t have at least a 3.6, you weren’t eligible in Public Works.