City Clerk Salary CompensationMasterpiece on the Mississippi
Dubuque
All- Amefica City
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2007
July 30, 2012
TO: The Honorable Mayor Roy D Buol and City Council Members
FROM: Kevin Firnstahl, City Clerk
SUBJECT City Clerk Salary Compensation
PURPOSE
The purpose of this memo is to propose a salary increase as a result of the
performance evaluation for the position of City Clerk on June 27, 2012
BACKGROUND
In mid -2008 the City Clerk position was removed from the General Employee Salary
Scale to align the position's responsibility with that of the City Manager and City
Attorney At that time the salary was adjusted upward substantially by the City Council
I am not sure of the criteria used at the time in making that adjustment or what the
actually numbers were
When the previous City Clerk left City employment, her salary was $93,510
Considering an across - the -board increase of 2 5 %, the top pay for the Clerk would now
be $95,848
RECOMMENDATION
In other positions within the City, until an employee reaches the top pay within a
classification, they receive an annual increase that amounts to 5% of their wages /salary
per year plus any across the board increases provided by contract or through the
budget process Using the previous clerk's determined salary as established by the
Council of $93,510 as top pay for the position and also using the other wage guidelines
used by the Personnel Department in determining increases for other employees, I
would ask for consideration as follows
Current Salary
2.5% Across - the -Board Increase
5% Step Increase ($85,918 x 5 %)
$2,096
$6,390
$83.822
$85,918
$90,212
Proposed FY 2012 Salary $90,212
Using this formula, and considering there was only a step increase next year of 5 %, this
position would then be in keeping with the amount determined by the City Council for
the previous City Clerk including across - the -board increases over the years.
If a 5% increase were approved as a step increase next year, without any across -the-
board consideration, the amount would then be near the previous clerk's salary. That
amount would be $94,723 in FY 14, which is still $1126 under what the previous Clerk's
salary would have been.
Thank you.
/ksf
cc: Randy Peck, Personnel Manager
Ken TeKippe, Finance Director
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