City eyes higher pay for workers

Compensation for city workers has improved, but levels are still lagging behind other localities in our area, according to a new study.

At the regular meeting of the Taylor City Council June 27, Lori Messer, managing director of Logic Compensation Group, presented a compensation study her agency recently completed, which recommends a $1.2 million scenario adjusting the base pay structure for both general employees and sworn fire and police employees by up to 10 percentage points from the median pay deficit.

“What we are recommending is that an adjustment to the salary structures be made, and it’s kind of a big increase given how far off the market you were,” Messer.