Irvine Ca Government Employees Wages And Salaries

The city should avoid adopting a policy of paying employees an "average" wage because the work they do has been and is expected to be above average, City Manager Paul O. Brady Jr. told the City Council this week. A committee of outside personnel managers last month had recommended that Irvine drop its 1985 policy of paying employees wages that rank in the top fourth of other Orange County cities' pay scales.

The City Council this week approved a new contract for Irvine police officers who have been working without one for more than 15 months. The three-year pact, reached last month and adopted Tuesday by the council, provides officers with modest pay hikes as well as increases in retirement and insurance benefits. On Monday, members of the Irvine Police Assn. approved the contract on a 102-4 vote. "I think all sides are happy this is all over.

The City Council has unanimously granted a 3% pay raise for all city employees except police officers. The police union and the city have been unable to agree on a labor contract since January, 1992, and have declared an impasse in negotiations. Two other employee unions received the pay increase and one-year contracts that call for the city to pay the 2% increase in employee health insurance costs. The contracts with the Irvine City Employees Assn. and Irvine Professional Employees Assn.

The City Council has unanimously granted a 3% pay raise for all city employees except police officers. The police union and the city have been unable to agree on a labor contract since January, 1992, and have declared an impasse in negotiations. Two other employee unions received the pay increase and one-year contracts that call for the city to pay the 2% increase in employee health insurance costs. The contracts with the Irvine City Employees Assn. and Irvine Professional Employees Assn.

The City Council today will consider giving 3% cost-of-living raises to all city employees except police officers, whose union has been unable to reach an agreement with city negotiators. The city will also pay for increases in employee health benefits, City Manager Paul O. Brady Jr. said. This will amount to an additional 2% increase in total employee compensation. The cost for the pay raises for 1993 will be about $1.5 million.

City employees are overpaid in comparison to similar city workers throughout the county and employees in the private sector, according to a special committee report to be presented Tuesday to the City Council. One of the committee's recommendations will be for the council to modify its 1985 policy to pay city workers more than 75% of all other public employees in the county. Paying in the top half is a more realistic goal to attract good employees, the panel decided.

The City Council this week approved a new contract for Irvine police officers who have been working without one for more than 15 months. The three-year pact, reached last month and adopted Tuesday by the council, provides officers with modest pay hikes as well as increases in retirement and insurance benefits. On Monday, members of the Irvine Police Assn. approved the contract on a 102-4 vote. "I think all sides are happy this is all over.

A blue-ribbon committee will try to answer a question raised by some residents and City Council members during last month's budget hearings: Are city employees overpaid? The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to create the committee and to hire a consultant to study employee salaries and benefits and recommend whether the city's organizational structure can be streamlined.

A committee that examined the pay and benefit levels of city employees has prompted the City Council to order a review of policies that make some Irvine employees the highest-paid city workers in the county. In a report to the council at its meeting Tuesday, the committee of personnel managers from public and private sectors concluded that high salaries and competitive benefits "provide for a very generous compensation package for Irvine city employees."

City planners, engineers, accountants and computer programmers this week narrowly agreed to accept a labor contract with no pay increase. Members of the Irvine Professional Employees Assn. approved a contract Tuesday by a five-vote margin, union president Eric Tolles said Thursday. The union was the second city employee group to accept a contract without a raise for 1992. "It was a very narrow vote to approve this," said Tolles, a senior plan-check engineer.

The City Council today will consider giving 3% cost-of-living raises to all city employees except police officers, whose union has been unable to reach an agreement with city negotiators. The city will also pay for increases in employee health benefits, City Manager Paul O. Brady Jr. said. This will amount to an additional 2% increase in total employee compensation. The cost for the pay raises for 1993 will be about $1.5 million.

City planners, engineers, accountants and computer programmers this week narrowly agreed to accept a labor contract with no pay increase. Members of the Irvine Professional Employees Assn. approved a contract Tuesday by a five-vote margin, union president Eric Tolles said Thursday. The union was the second city employee group to accept a contract without a raise for 1992. "It was a very narrow vote to approve this," said Tolles, a senior plan-check engineer.

The city should avoid adopting a policy of paying employees an "average" wage because the work they do has been and is expected to be above average, City Manager Paul O. Brady Jr. told the City Council this week. A committee of outside personnel managers last month had recommended that Irvine drop its 1985 policy of paying employees wages that rank in the top fourth of other Orange County cities' pay scales.

A committee that examined the pay and benefit levels of city employees has prompted the City Council to order a review of policies that make some Irvine employees the highest-paid city workers in the county. In a report to the council at its meeting Tuesday, the committee of personnel managers from public and private sectors concluded that high salaries and competitive benefits "provide for a very generous compensation package for Irvine city employees."

City employees are overpaid in comparison to similar city workers throughout the county and employees in the private sector, according to a special committee report to be presented Tuesday to the City Council. One of the committee's recommendations will be for the council to modify its 1985 policy to pay city workers more than 75% of all other public employees in the county. Paying in the top half is a more realistic goal to attract good employees, the panel decided.

A blue-ribbon committee will try to answer a question raised by some residents and City Council members during last month's budget hearings: Are city employees overpaid? The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to create the committee and to hire a consultant to study employee salaries and benefits and recommend whether the city's organizational structure can be streamlined.