The Lakeway City Council received the findings of a new compensation study that could increase the salaries of city employees at a special meeting July 18. The city contracted Public Sector Personnel Consultants to conduct a compensation study which began in May, through the last two months, to gather data of other cities including Austin, Bee Cave, San Marcos and New Braunfels. The consultant firm also created cost estimates for the implementation of a new pay plan of which there are four.
The compensation study was based on the comparable cities in close geographical proximity to Lakeway.
“We have people that come into Lakeway from pretty far away, and they are passing through other cities to come here and work for us and with us,” City Manager Joseph Molis said. “We felt that those were the things that we needed to look at when we’re looking at compensation fairness.”
Public Sector Personnel Consultants specialize in classification and compensation studies and, for Lakeway, took jobs with the same duties in different cities and compiled them to get a representation of the Central Texas market.
