The LEOAFFAIRS.COM is a statewide forum for Law Enforcement officers to discuss issues. I spent some time reading thru the comments and found that there has been some controversy among Esc. County deputies over their pay raises – which one post says it’s 11% raise minimum.
The discussion was so heated that PBA president,Bain Custer, felt it necessary to print this memo – titled “Putting Pay Rumors to Rest and Other Clarifications” – on the PBA website:
“I had a three hour meeting today with the Sheriff, the Chief, and Steve Stevens. The big rumor was that DSTâs would be starting at $32,900 and then getting their 10% after a year putting them at over $36,000 starting pay. That is not happening. DSTâs currently start at $28,402. That will be increased by 5% to $29,822.
At the end of one year they will get a 10% raise putting them at $32,804 (there will also most likely be a 3% merit raise during October, but thatâs not guaranteed). Starting pay for a Deputy Sheriff will be $32,895. Current Deputies who are not making $32,895 will be bumped up to that or receive a minimum of 5% whichever is more.
Besides these starting numbers we still have no idea how the rest of the raises will go. All we know is that these are the starting pay numbers and the Sheriff has said that everyone is going to receive a minimum of a 5% raise.
Other contractual items that were clarified are as follows:
If your regular hours work you into shift that receives shift differential you get the differential. The number of hours you worked in an evening shift and midnight shift will not be seperated. You will receive the midnight shift differential. Also, concerning shift differential, if you take off from a shift that gets dfor a period of time you still get your shift differential regardless of how many days you worked that week.
Civilian shift differential will be as follows:
Civilians will earn shift differential for:
Evenings – $150 a month
Midnights – $200 a month
Security Monitors will receive $100 month shift differential
This shift differential pay will be retroactive back to November 25th 2006.
The Sheriff also told me that within 30 days he would meet with me to discuss the possibility of raising the side job rate of pay.
Sincerely,
Bain Custer
Also there appears to some dissension over articles in the daily newspaper and by Commissioner Mike Whitehead that Sheriff McNesby had received $5 million for pay raises. Apparently the deputies had been told it was only $3 million….oops.
Here is the pay scale that was once published on the sheriff’s website, but was pulled later.
