DEPARTMENT: Employee Relations
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Establishment Of 2023 Elected Officials' And County Manager's Compensation
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Establish 2023 Elected Officials' and County Manager's Compensation.
SUMMARY
Elected Officials' and County Manager compensation is reviewed annually. Elected Officials' 2023 compensation must be established before year-end due to statutory requirements that do not provide for retroactive compensation and which specify that compensation must be set annually.
Proposed 2023 Elected Officials' and County Manager Compensation
All proposed salaries for 2023 have been computed based upon the proposed 2023 Unclassified Merit Compensation Policy and Plan ("Plan") and relevant statutory provisions. The 2023 salaries are initially established based upon the Unclassified Merit Compensation Policy and Plan alone. The proposed salaries actually payable in 2023 are established taking into account the limitations imposed by (i) Minn. Stat. 43A.17, subd. 9 (Political Subdivision Compensation Limit) i.e., the salary cap statute, and (ii) the Plan's policy which limits the salaries of the County Attorney and County Sheriff to the maximum compensation permitted by law to be paid to the County Manager. The proposed Plan provides for a 0.0% to 7.5% base adjustment for 2023. For the purposes of elected officials' pay the annual salary will be issued in equal payments pursuant the number of annual pay dates in a given year commencing on the first Monday of the year through the Sunday proceeding the first Monday of the following year.
Under the Plan, a recommendation of the annual salary of County Commissioners for the next year shall be made by the Employee Relations Director and County Manager and shall be based upon consistency with Dakota County's compensation structure for unclassified positions. Based on this, the recommendation for the County Commissioner 2023 salary is $93,328.
Under the proposed ...
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