Emporia city staff will receive salary increases in 2022, but how much those raises will be and how they will be allocated remain undecided. The topic of city staff wages again came up during the city commission’s Wednesday morning study session as it discussed its 2022 budget. Increasing salaries has been a pressing issue as the commission has worked on its 2022 budget, with commissioners and city staff acknowledging that in the past several years wage adjustments haven’t occurred as often as necessary to keep pay rates competitive with those offered by other communities. In previous sessions, the commission had discussed bumping up the wage scale 12% — with no one’s actual salary being raised except for those on the low end of the old wage scale to bring their salaries within the new wage scale — as well as providing a $1 per hour raise across the board.
Source: Emporia Gazette