PERCENT INTO PAY RANGE ANALYSIS
Percent into range data for all classified employees provides that the majority of classified salaries (73.1%) fall between the minimum and midpoint of their respective pay ranges as of January 1, 2025. Thus, the majority of classified employees are paid at a rate considered to be “below market.” This is an increase of +4.4 percentage points from the 68.6% reported last year. More employee salaries are below their respective midpoints this year as a result of the pay schedule changes that occurred in 2024. The Market Adjustment rule has helped reduce the percentage of employees that are paid below market and remains a key component of the state’s pay philosophy to maintain market competitiveness. However, adjustments to the pay schedules leave employees behind in their respective pay grades. For 2025, nearly three quarters of classified employees are paid at a rate that is considered to be below market.
Distribution of Classified Employees Relative to the Midpoint of the Pay Range
TARGETED REVIEW OF CLASSIFIED JOBS
The targeted review assists in maintaining market competitiveness by analyzing specific benchmarked jobs that have the greatest lags for the pay schedule. To correct these issues, SCS conducts job assessments to realign pay for these occupations. These focused changes can provide a cost savings on improving market competitiveness for the pay schedule, as they can have a positive impact on the overall market competitiveness for the pay schedule.
SCS continually works to improve market competitiveness. Although market lags persist in 2025 for the AS and TS pay schedule midpoints as compared to both public and private sector median salaries, SCS is currently working on solutions to improve market competitiveness for jobs in these pay schedules as a result of the recommendations provided in last year’s report. In addition, multiple job assessments have been completed over the last year by SCS. Job series with pay grade changes and/or new jobs are listed in this section of the report. Furthermore, SCS implemented a pay plan change for the PS pay schedule on August 19, 2024, that helped to improve market competitiveness for this pay schedule. Changes to pay grades and pay schedules tend to have a bigger impact on the market competitiveness of the midpoints of the pay schedules rather than the actual median salaries of classified employees. This is because only employees below the new minimums receive base pay increases to be brought up to the new minimum of their respective pay grade. State Civil Service 2025 Annual Pay Plan Report
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