Further, where DPA's contracted company did bother to gather any information, state excluded employees as a whole were 15-30% behind the rank and file -- and that is on top of the 1,000 classifications where supervisors and/or managers are already making the same or less than the state employees they supervise.

The report states, in part: "Compensation for supervisors is often determined by internal salary relationships within an organization's structure." But the way DPA has handled these "internal salary relationships" for the past six years, and even longer, is to keep the supervisor's salary stagnant while that supervisor's subordinates and superiors enjoy regular raises, enhanced incentives and even benefit improvements.

Supervisors are not an "afterthought," as DPA Director Mike Navarro has called us in public and private meetings. Rather, we are simply being IGNORED.