The city council unanimously voted for changes last month on its ranking and pay system for the city's employees after human resources spent years trying to come up with a new scheme. The changes impact about 1,600 non-union employees, typically managers, and places them in a better position to receive bigger raises.
Most manager will now be able to lock down big pay increases during their next performance review. That could mean, for example, that the city chief administrative officer's salary goes up almost 10%, to more than $235,000.
The city's HR director, Serilda Summers-McGee, told the city council that the new pay scheme will guarantee that managers get paid "fairly and consistently."