Salary and Compensation

• Each bargaining unit has a separate salary chart. Confidential employees are paid at the equivalent job grade in the Bargaining Unit Salary Chart.
• Each position covered by a collective bargaining agreement in the Executive Department is assigned to a Bargaining Unit and classified as a specific job grade (numerical).
• Each job grade is represented on the salary schedule showing a salary rate for each "step". Usually, employees start at step 1.
• Bargaining Unit employees advance to the next step each year on their anniversary date, as long as they have not reached the maximum step and their performance "Meets Expectations."
• If a collective bargaining agreement includes an across-the-board (ATB) increase to the salary charts, all employees in that Bargaining Unit will receive that increase as long as their performance meets expectations.
• An employee with a "Below Expectations" performance review rating cannot receive an ATB or step increase until their performance "Meets Expectations."

If you aren't sure what bargaining unit or job grade your title falls under, please refer to the Job Code List.

How is pay for Managers determined?

There are 12 levels or grades of Managers (M1-M12) and each has an associated annual salary band.

Each salary band is broken into quartiles.

Managers receive a salary within that band.

When can a manager receive a salary increase?

There are several ways a manager may receive a pay increase:

• Merit pay program (pay-for-performance)
• Across-the-board increase for managers
• Reclassification of current job to a higher grade (reallocation)
• Promotion to a new role of a higher job grade.

Are managers eligible to receive overtime or compensatory time?

Management Salary Chart
- Effective July 3, 2022

Some senior level IT management positions may be classified on a separate management pay scale such to a special approval process. Some functions covered by this pay scale include:

• Information Officer
• Technology Officer
• Information Security Officer
• Operations Officer
• Application Officer
• Director, Project Management Office

HRD has issued guidelines and a salary chart for this special group of technical managers.  Please refer to the document below.

Some but not all information technology jobs are classified as TPL titles.  The more advanced systems analysts and programmer titles tend to fall under TPL.

IT titles and brief job descriptions

Salary Chart for Regular TPL Employees

• Effective 7/5/2020
• Effective 7/4/2021
• Effective 7/3/2022

Pay for TPL Interns (Intranet site)

TPL Program Guidelines

Some agencies offer unpaid internships to undergraduate or graduate students for academic credit.

Other agencies offer paid internships.  Please see Intern Pay memo.

You can contact an agency where you would like to intern directly by looking at the list of state agencies and a brief description of the mission and function of the agencies.

State employees who use their private vehicle for work purposes during their regular work day may apply to their agency to reimbursed for their mileage. Please note the rate may be different that than the mileage rates issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 

Mileage Reimbursement Rate Chart

Link to Collective Bargaining Agreements (union contracts)