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City Wage survey for 19 area communities with an average population of 5885 noted an average starting wage of $30.69 per hour and stop wage of $38.04 per hour. Currently, the City's starting wage for this position is $28.80 or $1.89 below average and the top wage of $35.64 or $2.40 below average for cities with a lower average population and complexity. This reinforces the need for a wage evaluation. The recommended grade change from Grade 10 to Grade 11 would also make this postion more competitive in the comparative group. Grade 11 would place the starting wage at $30.64 or $0.05 below average and the top wage at $37.92 or $0.12 below top wage. Internal concerns related to wages, this position and other non-union positions come from the Local 12 Union agreement and the adopted wages for their agreement. Under the current revised scoring the City Clerk scores higher than the City Planners however, the pay scale for union employees provides them with a higher starting, $31.55 and top pay $39.05. This also displays a compression of the pay scale for the Building official(non-union) as well which is a grade 12 with starting pay at $32.59 and top pay at $40.34 Recommendations 1. Recommendation is to move the City Clerk Position from Grade 10 step 2 on the non- union wage scale to Grade 11 step 2. 2. Recommendation to further evaluate the pay and how to address pay compression with positions both union and non-union to ensure equitable pay is applied to postions of comparable scoring.