CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Salary Board on Tuesday voted to set the 2024 salaries for non-union salaried positions.
Most positions will receive an 8 percent pay raise, although Commissioner Dave Glass did note there were some exceptions
For example, he said there were new hires who received very little if anything and others who received “extra” to reduce some salary gaps.
When changes were made to the employee health insurance coverage a year ago, the board was unsure of the savings it would realize.
“But now, we’ve seen it,” said Glass. “We saved quite a bit. And, from the beginning, we said our goal was to put any savings into salaries.
“So, today we’re taking care of our obligation—to fix our employees’ salaries. It’s a big step forward.”
Commissioner John Sobel agreed, although he believed that some raises were “awfully large” for government jobs in public service.
But, he also saw specific cases where salaries were far too small and how it was effecting employee morale significantly.
And so, going forward he would like the board’s primary focus to be on rectifying those cases of disparity.
“I just don’t want to create a culture of expectation that we can do this every year,” said Sobel. “This is a one-time thing.”
Over the years, he’s noticed that some employee groups or departments feel they are more important than the others.
“We—the commissioners—feel and rather strongly that all our employees provide equally to county government in their own way.”
The board noted there’s currently plans “to do something” for the county security guards as well, but that’s still to be determined.
In other business, the board:
- approved a request from the commissioners to set the hourly rate of the IT intern at $14/hour, effective Jan. 1,2024. Glass abstained from the board’s vote.
- approved the minutes from the Dec. 12 meeting as presented.