Title
The Board of Water Commissioner for the City of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department approves the amended Official Compensation Schedule and authorizes the Director to take such action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
Body
Agenda of September 17, 2025
Item No. 2025-213
TO: The Honorable
Board of Water Commissioners
City of Detroit, Michigan
FROM: Tiffany Jones, Interim Director of Human Resources/Organizational Development
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department
RE: Official Compensation Schedule
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Tiffany Jones, Interim Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development, the Board of Water Commissioners for the City of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department approves the amended Official Compensation Schedule and authorizes the Director to take such action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION
To increase its competitiveness in the market by attracting new talent and improving employee retention, the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD) conducted a compensation study. The goal was to compare DWSD's pay ranges with the market and create job classifications that better reflect employees' actual duties and responsibilities.
The process began January 2024, when DWSD hired the American Society of Employers (ASE) to perform a market evaluation of all job classifications. Before ASE's review, DWSD's Human Resources team surveyed employees to clarify their job duties and identify any existing working titles. From this, HR developed updated job titles and descriptions, which were then provided to ASE for benchmarking.
For the market evaluation, ASE compared DWSD's jobs to similar roles in the market. ASE sampled Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) and Metro Detroit market. If Metro Detroit wasn't available, then they looked at Michigan and then National. To be considered a match, at least 70% of a job's responsibilities, requirements, an...
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