state employee salaries
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HB 2417 makes salary adjustments for state officers and employees by appropriating $188,811,514 in FY 2001-02 and $191,076,378 in FY 2002-03 and makes unspecified classification maintenance review adjustments.
Laws 1997, Chapter 3, 1st Special Session, established the Joint Legislative Study Committee (JLSC) on State Employee Compensation. The purpose of the Committee has been to study the various state personnel systems, state employee compensation and related issues: including salary, benefits, employee turnover, and compare other public and private employers to state employers. Additionally, the Committee has reviewed all payroll deductions made from state employee salaries pursuant to A.R.S. 36-612 and considered issues concerning state employee medical and dental insurance coverage; including issues relating to the size of the risk pool and the type of coverage provided to state employees.
Laws 1998, Chapter 292, Section 17, recognized a legislative intent describing that the legislature realizes the value of state employees and recommends that state employee salaries be raised to a competitive level (within 5% of market) by the end of FY 2002-03. Additionally, the JLSC on State Employee Compensation was continued for five years, until January 1, 2004.
During the 2000 interim, five personnel systems presented to the Committee their salary requests specifying their employee compensation funding increases necessary to fulfill the legislative intent to compensate state employees within 5% of market by the end of FY 2002-2003. Therefore, the total recommendation package of the JLSC on State Employee Compensation for state employee compensation is $379,887,892 by FY 2002-03.