2023-07-11 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission July 11, 2023 information regarding the cumulative percentage increase for each bargaining unit. That's what the second attachment is. For purposes of the Salary Commission, you're generally looking at BU13. BU1 is, of course, the blue-collar; BU2 blue-collar supervisors, BU3BU4 all white-collar; BU13 is the professional and scientific unit. So, what the information tells you there is from July 1, 2018, through July 1st, of 2023, the percentage increase was 12.43 percent. July 1, 2024, there will be another increase. MS. NAKAMA: Excuse me. Teresa Nakama here. Instead of using codes when you do a report to us, could we have numbers instead? Because it'll take me an education class to decipher the codes that you use. Instead of using codes the 3.2 percent increase of what? 1.2 percent of what? What are we—what salary are we looking at that I have to go back and forth instead of stating, right there and then, so I can look at it—right there and then. It's 3.2 percent of $86,000.00. CHR. PAVAO: Not everybody in bargaining unit 13 has the same salary. There are thousands of different salaries—it's based on step, when they got hired you have to figure 15-20 pages of salaries. MS. NAKAMA: You can average. You know what I mean? You can give it an average. I mean, it's likeI understood when I gave a sample from the website and that's the one we have in our folder, I guess. I can see the numbersState, City and County, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai. A sample like this gives us a picture. I don't I find it difficult to comprehend that we can't do something simple. Give us a number and not a code. MS. FRENZ: Unfortunately, we can't. The numbers are so there's too many for that to be practical. There's just too many employees MS. NAKAMA: You gave us a sample of this. MS. FRENZ: That's because those are appointing authorities CHR. PAVAO: This is different because this is one position, one person. MS. FRENZ: Yeah. CHR. PAVAO: In bargaining unit 13 you got hundreds of employees with all different salary schedules because based on when they were hired. MS. NAKAMA: Yeah. CHR. PAVAO: So, you would have to look at hundreds of salaries. Page 17