Bill > HB1774

This bill aims to improve the state's salary survey process, which is used to determine fair market value for public sector jobs. The key provisions are: 1. Requiring the Office of Financial Management (OFM) to negotiate the job classification specifications used in the salary survey with employee organizations, to ensure the benchmarks are accurate and representative of the work performed. 2. Allowing OFM greater flexibility in using the salary survey data to grant targeted pay increases to job classifications that are found to be significantly behind market rate, addressing issues of pay inequity. 3. Specifying that the benchmark descriptions and job classifications used in the salary survey are subject to collective bargaining between the employer and a coalition of all relevant bargaining representatives. The overall goal is to make the state's salary survey a more effective tool in the collective bargaining process, helping to address staffing challenges and pay disparities, particularly for jobs predominantly held by women and people of color.

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https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1774&Year=2023&Initiative=false