At the May 7 meeting, staff was asked to:
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consult the County's HR Consultant to find out if a study had been conducted that determined how for below market wages are County employee salaries.
Staff consulted the County Administrator and HR Consultant and learned that no Countywide study has been conducted to measure the County's wages against the labor market. However, the County Administrator indicated that it has been generally accepted that Contra Costa County salaries are 15-18% below market.
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verify the veracity/reliability of RelocationEssentials.com data.
Staff was unable to independently verify the data used by RelocationEssentials. However, it has been in existence for at least 15 years and is widely referenced in the real estate industry. Attachment "I" is a 2001 magazine article about the site. Below are other sites that offer similar data and services; however, none of the other sites offer a salary converter on a county-by-county basis.
Moving.com
Simplest of the calculators on this page. Forensic Scientists can select the "Research & Science" field, then select the most similar job description.
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Bestplaces.net Salary Calculator
Even "from" DC it will ask you to also pick a city.
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Salary.com
Minimal details, but nice graphic of salary vs. cost of living for comparisons.
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CNN.com
City choices limited and difficult to pick-out from the odd by-state listing.
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refine the non-salary compensation data fur future consideration by the Committee.
Attachment G continues to be a work in progress. It has been updated with additional data and reformatted to show both Total Annual Compensation and Total Compensation, so that the Committee can see the effect that the pension benefit has on compensation.
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compile one or more economic benchmarks for Contra Costa and the eight peer counties
Attachment B has been updated to include two new economic benchmarks for the eight peer counties: Cost of Living as Compared to the National Average, and Median Household Income.
To assist the committee in its study, the attachments from the last meeting are included below along with new attachments H and I, and updates to Attachments B and G:
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Final report on Setting Compensation of Members of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors
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Comparison of Key Characteristics of Staff-Selected Counties - UPDATED
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Comparison Bar Charts of Key Characteristics: County Population, Unincorporated County Population, Budget
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2007 Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Salary Adjusted for CPI
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2015 Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Salary Comparison with Staff-Selected Counties
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Sample “Relocation Essentials” Cost of Living Analysis: Contra Costa Compared to San Mateo
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Updated Tri-County Total Compensation Comparison: Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo - UPDATED
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Michael Moore Pension Benefit Estimate
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2001 Realtor article about RelocationEssentials.com
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5-11-15 Sacramento Bee news article announcing 3% pay raise for State Legislators, Governor
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