HR director outlines new two-part 2017 performance-pay plan for county staff

Jim Davis, Butler County director of human resources, told commissioners the county has worked on a pay plan since 2010 and said 2017 will be the year the plan is fully implemented. "We're preparing to do 2017 pay distribution here in the next week or so," Davis said, and described Part A as a 2% allocation to base wages and Part B as an additional, non-base quarterly payment equal to the Part A allocation.

Davis said the plan grew from classification work with a pay consultant, point-factor job evaluations and wage surveys to create a salary-administration structure intended to retain staff while aligning with budget projections and cost-of-living measures. Commissioners praised the effort as balancing employee recognition with taxpayer fiscal stewardship.