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Section 11 Municipal Policies
Employee Pay Plan Policy

I. SCOPE OF PURPOSE

The purpose of this policy is to set out the philosophy, purpose, and intent of the Town of
Westlake’ s pay system for municipal employees.

The Town of Westlake’ s mission is “ to be a unique community, blending preservation of our
natural environment and viewscapes, while serving our residents and businesses with
superior municipal and academic services that are accessible, efficient, cost-effective,
and transparent.”

The Town of Westlake believes that market- based salary, in combination with employee
competence and their overall contribution to the Town’ s success, should largely determine
their compensation and career advancement opportunities. The philosophy and
objectives of this pay policy are as follows:
First, the Town’ s pay system should be internally equitable. It must ensure that
pay ranges of each position within our organization reflects the value of
comparable positions within our organization. To achieve this, we must pay
employees fairly compared to their coworkers, and employees must also
perceive that they are paid fairly compared to their coworkers.
Second, The Town’ s pay system must be externally competitive in the market
place, so that the Town of Westlake support or strategic outcome objective to
attract, recruit, and retain highly qualified employees who are vital to
accomplishing the organization’ s vision and mission.

Third, to be motivational to our employees, providing the opportunity for future
pay increases based upon individual work performance and development of
job-related skills and competencies.

II. DEFINITION

With these objectives in mind, the Town’ s municipal compensation plan is a broad band
pay system. A broad band pay system is markedly different than the traditional “ step-in-
grade” pay system.

A broad band pay system is one that structures pay utilizing two primary steps.

First, the responsibilities and qualifications required of each position are analyzed.

Second, using this position analysis, pay for these positions are surveyed against
the market to create a broad set of occupation groups that become the pay
bands.

Each pay band has a minimum, mid-point, and a maximum rate of pay; however, within
each band there is flexibility for hiring and provision of performance pay.

Utilization of a broad band pay system by an organization is intended to:
Reward employees for positive behaviors that contribute to the effectiveness of
the Town’ s service delivery to our stakeholders;
Assist the Town in fulfilling its vision and mission by offering increased opportunities

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