By Emily Summars Bill removes salary ranges from statutes With the goal of being more transparent and efficient, HB1717 removes salary bands of chief executive officers of each agency, board, commission, department and similar entities from state statutes. The bill received little discussion during session but it is beginning to impact the decisions of several boards and agencies. Ron Wilson, with Human Capital Management of Office of Management and Enterprise Services, said the idea began in about 1984 when the state hired Hay Group to help with methodology for employees. Hay Group is a global consulting firm that evaluates, assesses and strategizes how to make a company more efficient and “to ensure that employees are correctly motivated, rewarded and clearly aware of their contribution…,” as stated on the group’s website. Wilson said Hay Group did an initial director’s salary study in 2001. HB1717 is not a new idea and “something similar has been done before,” Wilson said. The bill, Wilson said, is a more comprehensive update for the system studied covering both appropriated and non-appropriated agencies. “We take a comprehensive look overall so you can be addressing them [salaries] on a more frequent basis and therefore you would not need to change statue consistently,” Wilson said. “… We’re looking for a uniformed theme consistency.”
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:43:16 +0000
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