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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 marketplace, 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.

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