Salary-Setting Task Force delivers report to Governor, Legislature

The State Excluded Employees Salary-setting Task Force delivered to Gov. Schwarzenegger and the Legislature on June 30, 2004, its Final Report and Recommendation for a new salary-setting process for excluded state employees.

History of the Task Force

On Sept. 28, 2002, Gov. Davis signed into law AB 2477 (Steinberg), the ACSS-sponsored bill that establishes a Task Force to create a new process for determining salary and benefit levels for state Excluded and Exempt Employees. Existing law requires DPA to establish and adjust salary ranges for each class of position in state civil service. DPA is supposed to base these salary ranges on the principle that like salaries shall be paid for comparable duties and responsibilities, and that prevailing rates for comparable service in other public employment and in the private sector be considered in the process. But for two decades there has been no process in place to ensure that this is being done.

AB 2477 creates a partnership between DPA and excluded employee organizations that will establish a workable and logical process for setting salary and benefit levels for the state's management team. The Excluded Employees Salary-Setting Task Force consists of 12 members -- six from DPA and six from excluded employee representative organizations -- who will be working together to devise the new process for identifying and implementing equitable salary and benefit changes over time for excluded and exempt positions in state government. 

This Task Force is required to recommend the new process to the governor and the Legislature before July 1, 2004. Any recommended process must include specific criteria identified in Government Code Section 19836.1.