SAN DIEGO —
San Diego is giving a series of pay raises totaling more than 27 percent to all 300 of its deputy city attorneys, who have been among the lowest-paid public lawyers in the state based on recent surveys.
The increases come a month after the city gave a similar series of raises totaling nearly 23 percent over two years to more than half its workforce of 11,000.
The attorneys and other workers also will get the raises in a period of just over two years, starting July 1.
May 1, 2023
City Councilmembers, who unanimously gave final approval to all the pay hikes Tuesday, said the higher pay will help retain employees and fill thousands of vacancies officials have blamed for deteriorating city services.
Several salary surveys in recent years have shown gaps as large as 30 percent between city of San Diego workers and their counterparts with other government agencies.
City officials blame those gaps primarily on a nine-year wage freeze at City Hall that began in 2010 after the Great Recession and continued through 2019 because of a ballot measure prohibiting most pay increases.
“This is a historic investment in our workers that is long overdue,” Councilmember Marni von Wilpert said. “We’ve been trying to dig out of this hole for so long.”
The raises will cost the city $537 million cumulatively over the next four fiscal years, with $263 million of...
JAMMU: The family of a 26-year-old Christian man in Lahore has rejected allegations of blasphemy because of which he was arrested in August. The family has said that his arrest was baseless as the...