2023-08-04 Salary Commission Minutes

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Salary Commission August 4, 2023 Oahu is a million; Kauai is 75,000. I start just right there and then that helps me look at where some of the wages are. These two last pages, I think, are to the point that you made about how we address the recipe this, for me, is the ingredient list—are these two pages these last two pages right here. Thank you. ACTING CHR FARAHL That is, actually, correct. But it is one of the criteria's that determines the worth of the position. In other words, those things like budget, employees—and then the comparative index associated with similar counties or some other entities, or sometimes you do nationwide things. So, what I'm recommending is that for the "New Business" we break it down and just talk about those things—one, to break it down and say, "What is the position worth? What is the salary associated with the position" regardless of who is in it. And, "What criteria would we use in order to determine a recommendation associated with that position?" Let's say, we start with the comparative part. It doesn't really matter. You compare it and then you say, "Okay, budget, number employees, qualifications"—for instance, the medical examiner qualification of an MD automatically jumps that salary to a different level, regardless of how many people report to them and so on. But the comparison might actually give you a better idea that how much a county coroner should be paid. So, if we could stick with that, based on that position description, that is provided by the human resources—and look at the additional things that they provided us through the communication that was sent to them, to adjust the position description. Then say, "Okay, based on these criteria, these positions are worth this and this." So, once you completed that one, the other two are or three items are very easy to do. "What is the cost of living associated with that? How do you calculate that"—and so forth. "What is the increment? What system of evaluation do you have in place?" That could cut down the time associated with us sitting in over here and doing all of these things to reasonable size. MR. RIORDAN: Commissioner Riordan. Isn't that the mayor's job? He decides the people that work for him what their scale is? And if he thinks the planning director should be—is worth more than the parks and rec. director that's his call. And our call is just to make sure that they're getting paid. And that if we start with the base that we have right here and we say, "Okay, everybody's going to get"I'm just throwing a number out there, please don't quote me, let's just say, "Everybody's going to get an 18 percent raise across-the-board" and we just—and we don't make that decision as to what the mayor thinks his people their lineup is in the flowchart. `Cause that seems like we're going to go way into the weeds. MR. NELSON: But I think we do set the salaries. Page 8