While the city of Neosho has elected to freeze pay again this year (after reducing it 3.75% last year), the city of Joplin has found a way to give their employees a little more money.
From today’s Joplin Globe:
JOPLIN, Mo. — Joplin city workers will receive a 2.5 percent pay hike in the fiscal year beginning Nov. 1.
The increase, recommended earlier by City Manager Mark Rohr, was endorsed by the City Council on Tuesday night at a special meeting in which members also adopted a new, self-funded insurance program aimed at eventually trimming city costs for the benefit.
Council members adopted the pay hike on a 7-2 vote, after some questioned the decision in the current economic climate and others pointed out that the increase did little to address a disparity cited in recent pay studies.
This raise is on top of the raise approved in March of 3%.
The full article is here.
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