Commissioners sign off, 3-1, on third round of ‘market-based’ pay hikes for staff at cost of $300K

Commissioners sign off, 3-1, on third round of ‘market-based’ pay hikes for staff at cost of $300K

Alamance County’s governing board has agreed to shell out more than $300,000 over the next six months to boost the salaries of hundreds of county staff members that a hired consultant had found to be trailing their peers in other jurisdictions. The county’s board of commissioners ultimately voted 3-to-1to implement these “market-based” adjustments in order to benefit 420 staff members that Sarah Towne of the firm BakerTilly had identified in a r…