Annual Salary Schedules. A. The salary schedule and its provisions shall be negotiated annually. The salaries of all certificated Employees represented by this agreement shall be paid in accordance with the current teachers’ salary schedule and provisions. Revised: 06/15/06
Annual Salary Schedules. (Schedule A) Association Proposal The Association proposes that all salaries set out in Schedule A be increased by 10% for the period of time, January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003. The Association submitted its proposal is fair and reasonable, given historic relationships with police services in similar-size municipalities and the historic internal relationship between police and fire fighters in Kingston, as well as the relationship between civilian salaries and police officer salaries in this Association. (I follow the parties’ submissions in discussing this issue in terms of the “benchmark” 1st Class Constable salary addressed in the collective agreement for the sworn members of the Association.) The Association data indicate that in 1993, the Kingston 1st Class Constable salary of $52,642 was $1,421.00 above the average of its 6 comparators. By 1996, it had reduced to $273 above average, and in 1998 was $1106 below the average. During the term of the 1998-02 collective agreement, the Kingston benchmark salary remained roughly $1000 below average, and by 2002 it was below the average figure by $1916. By way of direct comparisons, the Association data indicate that while the Kingston benchmark salary in 1993 was $2,164 higher than the one for Guelph, by 2002 the Kingston 1st Class Constable salary was $2,480 less than that in the Guelph collective agreement. The Association drew a similar comparison with the benchmark figure for Brantford, whereby the Kingston figure was $3,183 higher than for Brantford in 1993, but in 2002 was $313 lower. The Association noted there is a well-recognized comparison of the wage relations between police officers and fire fighters within the same community for purposes of determining both groups’ wage rates. Comparison with the Kingston fire fighters indicates that the 1st Class Constable salary was $1820 higher than the comparable fire fighter salary in 1993 and 1996. In 1998, that difference had decreased to $949 and, by 2002, both groups were at the same salary level, approximately $59,460. An increase in 2003 of 7.57% results in a salary of $63,409 and restores the historical average difference of $921 higher for police officers when compared with the fire fighters 2003 benchmark salary. It was also pointed out that at the end of the fire fighters’ collective agreement in 2005, their benchmark salary will be $68,018. Board Proposal The Board proposes that all salaries remaining in Schedule A increase by 3% effective Jan...
