W. Carrollton, Miamisburg to vote on raises

Pay raises for city workers in Miamisburg and West Carrollton are expected to be voted on tonight.

Miamisburg is set to address pay increases for its city manager, law director, prosecutor and clerk of council, while West Carrollton’s legislation includes most city workers, records show.

The pay hikes in Miamisburg — which would take effect Jan. 1 — are scheduled to be 3 percent, in line with rate increases approved earlier this month for most city workers, including two police unions, said City Manager Keith Johnson.

“Typically with nonunion, the wage adjustments are set based on what our bargaining units get in their contracts,” Johnson said.

“If you look back over the last five or six years, the norm is that there not be an adjustment,” he added, “because we’ve tightened our budgets as our spending needed to tighten. There were two or three years there weren’t any adjustments done, and some where they were just nominal.”

Miamisburg has about 135 full-time employees, Johnson said.

The increases call for the city manager’s annual salary to rise to $134,012, the prosecutor’s to $93,403, the law director’s to $65,121 and the council clerk’s to $7,380, records show.

Pay schedules for annual salaries of department heads receiving increases approved earlier this month ranged from $87,263 to $109,983, city records show.

Pay schedules of annual salaries for nearly 30 other positions ranged from a minimum of $17,774 for an operations leader to a maximum of $99,052 for police captain, according to records.

Nearly 80 of West Carrollton’s 116 workers are proposed to get 2.5 percent cost of living increases, according to City Manager Brad Townsend.

The legislation includes department heads in planning, economic development, engineering, finance, human resources, and the police and fire departments.

Those positions have an annual salary ranging from a minimum of $62,088 to a maximum of $102,284, records show.

The hourly positions range from a minimum of $8.78 an hour for a seasonal laborer to a maximum of $42.52 an hour for part-time utility superintendent.

The legislation going before that city’s council tonight includes only nonunion employees, as the city is “still negotiating with our employee bargaining unit groups,” Townsend said in an email.

If approved, the West Carrollton increases would take effect Monday, documents show.