(a) Employees who receive longevity pay as of September 1, 2012, shall continue to receive longevity pay based on their present longevity base rate. Employees presently receiving longevity pay who are promoted will receive the longevity base rate for their new salary group. The salary schedule for groups one (1) through fifteen (15) are as follows:
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
1 | 28,637.44 |
2 | 30,274.40 |
3 | 32,179.68 |
4 | 34,220.16 |
5 | 36,531.04 |
6 | 39,384.80 |
7 | 42,513.12 |
8 | 46,194.72 |
9 | 50,660.48 |
10 | 53,310.40 |
11 | 56,313.92 |
12 | 59,768.80 |
13 | 63,731.20 |
14 | 68,278.08 |
15 | 80,976.48 |
(b) Employees who receive longevity pay as of September 1, 2012, shall continue to receive longevity pay based on their present longevity base rate. Employees presently receiving longevity pay who are promoted will receive the longevity base rate for their new salary group. The salary schedule for groups one (1) through fifteen (15) that was effective in September of 2012 shall be modified to reflect a two percent (2%) increase, effective the first full pay period in June of 2013:
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
1 | 29,209.44 |
2 | 30,879.68 |
3 | 32,822.40 |
4 | 34,904.48 |
5 | 37,261.12 |
6 | 40,173.12 |
7 | 43,363.84 |
8 | 47,118.24 |
9 | 51,673.44 |
10 | 54,377.44 |
11 | 57,439.20 |
12 | 60,964.80 |
13 | 65,006.24 |
14 | 69,644.64 |
15 | 82,596.80 |
(c) Employees who receive longevity pay as of September 1, 2012, shall continue to receive longevity pay based on their present longevity base rate. Employees presently receiving longevity pay who are promoted will receive the longevity base rate for their new salary group. The salary schedule for groups one (1) through fifteen (15) that became effective in June of 2013 shall be modified to effectuate a two percent (2%) increase effective the first full pay period in June of 2014:
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
SALARY GROUP | FULL RATE |
1 | 29,793.92 |
2 | 31,497.44 |
3 | 33,479.68 |
4 | 35,603.36 |
5 | 38,007.84 |
6 | 40,976.00 |
7 | 44,231.20 |
8 | 48,060.48 |
9 | 52,707.20 |
10 | 55,465.28 |
11 | 58,589.44 |
12 | 62,183.68 |
13 | 66,306.24 |
14 | 71,038.24 |
15 | 84,248.32 |
(d) Newly hired employees who are not placed from within Court employment will be paid at the starting rate which is ten percent (10%) below the full rate of the salary group shown in this section for the duration of the one-year probationary period in accordance with Section 2134.11(a). At the Court's sole discretion, an employee may be paid the full rate of their salary group.
(e) Employees who are off payroll more than twenty (20) work days during their first year of service shall have their starting rate year of service extended by their number of uncompensated work days.
(f) At any time that the full rates or longevity rates , established for groups one (1) through fifteen (15) become less than one full percent (1.0%) above the total of corresponding compensation in Chapter 2105 of the Code, then those rates or payments shall be increased or corresponding payments initiated so that the total of corresponding compensation for groups one (1) through fifteen (15) is one percent (1.0%) over the total corresponding Chapter 2105 compensation.
(g) Employees who are "red circled" at a rate above the authorized rate for their classification shall receive no increases in their red-circled rates, but shall be given a lump sum payment computed by multiplying the percentage increase in "Hay Rates" that year by their base annual red-circle rate. Annual lump sum payments shall continue until the increases in the authorized ("Hay") rates provided in the foregoing paragraphs of this section causes those rates to equal or exceed the employees' red-circle rates. These lump sum payments, which shall not be added to the base rates, shall be payable the first full pay period of January of each year to those red-circled employees then on the payroll. In the year in which the Hay Rate equals or exceeds the red-circled rate for employees, the employees shall receive a lump sum computed by adding the percentage increase in the Hay Rate that year to their red-circle rate and subtracting their new Hay Rate. They shall then be paid at their new Hay Rate.
(h) Whenever it becomes necessary to determine the hourly or daily rate of pay for an employee whose rate is stated herein as an annual salary, the determination shall be made by dividing the annual salary by two thousand eighty (2,080) to determine the hourly rate, or by two hundred sixty (260) to determine the daily rate of compensation for the employee.