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C+~S • September 3, 2003 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Gehrz, Councilmembers Kuettel, Lamb, Lindstrom and Talbot FROM: Heather Worthington, City Administrator RE: Personnel Compensation In response to Councilmember Lamb's questions regarding employee compensation, I have prepared the following personnel compensation analyses for each position, both part-time and full-time, hourly and salary. I utilized the 2003 Stanton Salary Survey for the information on comparison cities. The cities in the Group 7 category are all metro area cities under 10,000 in population. I further refined this to cities from an approximate population of above 3,100 to just below 10,000. There are very few cities in the metro in the 5,000 range, so I thought this would be the best statistical approach, given the limited data available. Even so, there were some positions we have which did not have a good comparison data set in the survey. This can be attributed to three factors: 1) a very small staff; 2) single staff people doing multiple tasks, which may be spread out amongst several staff in a larger city; and 3) small cities in the metro with different service delivery models, and fewer direct comparisons to Falcon Heights. For the City Forester, for instance, there was no comparison. • (Fortunately, the Stanton Survey had an audit job this year that was a close match, but the cities listed were Group 5 cities, and much larger than Falcon Heights, so this is not a perfect comparison). In addition, I have listed below several other factors in employee compensation: Health Insurance Policy Falcon Heights has long had a policy of offering 100% coverage for single-payers for health insurance, and 75% coverage for family coverage. This generous benefit has offset some of the lower salary and hourly wages paid to employees. We are part of the Ramsey County pool, and have Health Partners insurance. Insurance benefits are listed under separate line items in the budget for each fund. Currently, the breakdown for health and dental coverage is as follows: Health: Single: $364.64 Family: $845.81 Dental: Single: $36.45 Family: $81.20 • • We are projecting a 17% increase in health, and a 7% increase in dental insurance for 2004.