Tucson City Council voted to increase TPD's wages by an average of 7%, with 2% across-the-board raises for other city employees.
The Tucson Police Department is set to see $5.2 million worth of raises after City Council voted unanimously Monday to dedicate $9.4 million to employee compensation throughout the rest of the fiscal year.
Preliminary considerations are to spend another $12 million to again raise police wages by 5% and other city employees’ salaries by 3% as part of next fiscal year’s budget adoption. This year, the city’s investing an extra $22.6 million into its three main community safety departments: the Public Safety Communications Department, Tucson Police Department and Tucson Fire Department — which totals about 46% of this year’s planned spending for $150 million in surplus funding. The raises passed Monday, however, are part of this year’s regular budget spending.
While the city has expressed intentions to remain competitive with other police departments, the raises are partially due to the city’s memorandum of understanding with TPD’s labor union, the Tucson Police Officers Association. The agreement says Tucson should make TPD’s wages meet at least 90% of the Phoenix Police Department’s pay rates or 95% of the average wages for the police departments in Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, Glendale, Pima County, Marana and Oro Valley.
“I'm not sure chasing 90% of Phoenix is fiscally sound, and especially if doing that is going to fundamentally increase our PSPRS outlay,” Kozachik said.
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