pletion of the hundred and four calendar weeks of active service, if he has a current performance rating of "satisfactory" or better. Each officer and member serving in steps 1, 2, or 3, of Subclasses (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of Class 1 shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step rate for his current Subclass at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of fifty-two calendar weeks of active service in his Class if he has a current performance rating of "satisfactory" or better. Any officer or member who is promoted or transferred to a higher class shall receive basic compensation at the lowest scheduled rate of such higher class which exceeds his existing rate of compensation by not less than one step increase of the class from which he is promoted or transferred: Provided, That any such officer or member serving in a subclass other than subclass (a) of any class (who is not assigned as a detective sergeant in class 4, subclass (b)) shall receive basic compensation at the lowest scheduled rate of such higher class which exceeds by one step increase the rate shown for subclass (a) in the same step in which he was serving in the class from which promoted Provided further. That such scheduled rate in higher class shall not be less than his existing rate of pay. Any officer or member in any Class who is assigned or transferred to any Subclass within the same Class shall be placed in the same service or longevity step in such Subclass as that which he was in immediately prior to being so assigned or transferred. Whenever any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force is changed or demoted from any Class to a lower Class, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia may, in his discretion, in changing or demoting such officer or member, fix his rate of compensation at any rate provided for the Class or Subclass to which he is changed or demoted which does not exceed his existing rate of compensation, except that if his existing rate falls between two step raics provided in such lower Class, he may receive the higher of such rates. LONGEVITY In recognition of long and faithful service, each officer and member shall receive an additional step increase (to be known as a longevity step increase) beyond the maximum scheduled service step rate for the Subclass in which he is serving, or for the Class in which he is serving if there. are no Subclasses in his Class, for each one hundred and fifty-six calendar weeks of continuous service completed by him at such maximum rate or at a rate in excess thereof, without change to a higher Class, subject to all the following conditions. (1) No officer or member shall receive more than one longevity step increase (2) Not more than three successive longevity step increases may be granted to (3) In the case of officers or members serving in salary class 1, each longevity (4) Each longevity step increase shall begin on the first day of the first pay period (5) Notwithstanding other provisions of this law, each deputy chief shall, upon NOTE: This condensation omits those classes and grades in the schedule which pertain only to members of the Fire Department and also omits those sections of the Act which pertain to the methods of transition from the old to the new salary schedule. This difference is based primarily on our use of comparability with like police and fire jobs in cities over 500,000 population and locally while S. 2694 uses a direct tie to certain grade levels of the general schedule for Federal and District civilian employees. Although we do not necessarily oppose this relationship to the general schedule, no real determination as to the correlation of GS levels to uniformed officer salaries has as yet been made. We cannot support the higher increases proposed in S. 2694 without more supporting information. The District's proposed officer salaries indicates that we would be in first or second place in nearly every officer category when compared to like jobs paid by the other large cities. Although these differences do exist, the concepts and attitudes embodied in both S. 2694 and our proposed bill are quite similar. Mr. Chairman, I am sure that from the standpoint of trends I need not go into that too much. I would at this time, however, like to ask if you would want us to give a brief rundown on our comparability. I think that would be most significant, if you would, sir. Senator EAGLETON. That would be fine. You may proceed. Mr. EHRLICH. All right, sir. Right now police privates in the Washington Metropolitan Police Department rank in seventh place for minimum salaries and in ninth place in maximum salaries paid. With regard to the firefighters, we are in a tie for eighth in minimum salaries and in eighth place for maximum salaries with the other 20 large cities over 500,000 population. Senator EAGLETON. Mr. Mayor, may we have a reproduction of this for the record? Mayor WASHINGTON. Yes. It is in our folder now, sir. (The chart referred to follows:) Senator EAGLETON. To make the record clear would you tell us as of what date you gathered these statistics? Mr. EHRLICH. August 1, 1969. Senator EAGLETON. I am sure you will concede that almost every State on that list has had a legislative session in process. Illinois, I know did. Missouri did. New York may still be in session. So some of these figures may be out of line. You may not be seventh for beginning salaries any more. You may have slipped behind because I know sizable increases were granted to police in Missouri. I am not sure about the firemen but I am positive about the policemen. So you may have slipped behind. Mr. WEINBERG. Mr. Chairman, we try to update our figures every 6 months. We just sent out a survey to these 20 cities, including Kansas City, for the first time. We received about half of them back. We also asked in the survey, and you have copies of our last survey in your folder, "Are you anticipating another pay increase within a 6-month period?" What we will do, we hope by the end of the month, is to have it completely updated. This chart reflects the most current information as we have received it so far. Senator EAGLETON. When you get your next updating chart, would you submit that to us so that we can have it current? Mr. WEINBERG. Yes, sir. Mr. EHRLICH. Our proposal in S. 2694 moves the District to fifth place and sixth place for minimum salaries for police and fire and would move us to second place for both police and fire for the maximum salaries. If you will look at chart No. 2, this indicates our position with the surrounding jurisdictions. As you will note, the District has dropped to second below Fairfax County for minimum salaries paid and we compete very poorly on the basis of maximum salaries paid since we are in sixth or next to the last place for police private maximums and last place for firefighter maximums. S. 2694 and our proposal would correct this deficiency. We would be first in the minimum and we would be first in the maximum proposed. Senator EAGLETON. Maybe I can ask Mr. Weinberg since he is in closer contact with people from the immediate area what pay increases are being planned in the areas adjacent to the District? Mr. WEINBERG. We know that Fairfax has just recently increased and we know that there are some other active proposals. We have not gotten any information which would indicate necessarily that they would go beyond what is being proposed in S. 2694. I think, though, if I may make a comment, Mr. Chairman, if you will notice the length of the bars on the graph, if you see the District presently, the length of the bar is shorter, meaning that our people, although we may start higher in, say, a certain period of time, are much lower as far as the maximum is concerned as compared to the other jurisdictions which have a much greater spread and provide a much more career-oriented pay system than we have at present. That is one of the things that we started to improve upon. As you see, the proposal there gives a much greater career-oriented schedule between the minimum and the maximum. Mayor WASHINGTON. Mr. Chairman, under the blue tab you will find that chart. Senator EAGLETON. It will be made part of the record. (The chart referred to follows:) |