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Page 2 We received a good response to the survey, particularly as a result of your efforts to contact your colleagues and request their assistance. We thank you for this assistance. As you know, this project ran into some complications due to errors in data reporting by the survey recipients to our survey and on the League database and some data entry errors where longevity was inadvertently included with the base salaries of some law enforcement job classes. We regret those problems and appreciate your patience as we have addressed the problems. Even with the additional data review, we have not received confirmation from every entity about the data supplied. For the most part, we have listed data reported in the League of Minnesota Cities salary database or data the City obtained as preparation for collective bargaining. The accompanying information presents the data used to update the pay plan and the proposed pay scale. All data reflect base pay rates; longevity is not included. The data sheet lists the position and the Hay points assigned to it. We are not recommending any revisions to the job descriptions or to the Hay points. The data sheet also lists the City's existing maximum pay rate for each position along with the maximum pay rates determined by the salary survey. We have also calculated a predicted pay rate, which is the line of best ft, and included that rate for each position on the data sheet. The pay scale is calculated based on the maximum market salary rate identified in the recent survey. If the position's current maximum rate of pay is more than the maximum market salary rate, the pay scale is based on the current pay rate to ensure that employees do not receive a reduction in pay. For positions without adequate market salary data, the pay scale is determined based on the predicted pay or the current maximum rate for the position, whichever is higher, ensuring that employees do not receive a reduction in pay. The pay scale shows the pay range for each position. The pay range for each position is based on the maximum rate, using the process outlined above. For each pay range, 100% reflects the maximum salary rate. Steps are also calculated at 80%, 82,5%, 85%, 90% and 95% unless otherwise stipulated in a collective bargaining agreement.