Cline and Associates Reports Available for All Public Safety Classifications

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

In our wage and settlement development survey, we’ve covered police, corrections, fire, dispatch, and records personnel. Cline and Associates collects and analyzes all public safety classifications on a statewide basis.

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Part 6: Dispatcher and Records Clerk Wages

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

This is part of our continued series on Washington public safety employee wages.  In this issue we report on the current wage rankings for 911 dispatchers and police records clerks.

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Wage Series Part 5: Firefighter and Corrections Rankings

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

This is Part 5 of our 2023 Wage Series. In our last article, we covered Commissioned Deputy and Police Officer Wages.  In this article, we turn to Firefighter and Corrections Officer Wages. We’ll cover Dispatcher and Records Clerk Wages in the next article.

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Wage Series Part 4: How Do Your Wages Stack Up: Statewide Commissioned City and County Wage Rankings

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

In part 4 of our on-going wage series, we now turn to the rankings of County Deputy Sheriff and City Police Officer rankings throughout the State. This series always produces both expected and unexpected information about the relative standing of jurisdictions.

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Wage Series Part 3: Current economic conditions — Good with a Receding Likelihood of a Recession

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

This is the third article in our wage series reporting on contract settlement trends.  This article highlights some of the recent economic developments most likely to impact your negotiations outlook.  As always, the most important variable for your contract is your local economy and your employer’s fiscal condition but the larger state and national trends have an immediate bearing on those and are worth an examination. 

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Wage Series Part 2: Recent Wage Settlement Trends in Washington Public Safety Labor Contracts

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

This is the second part of our 2023 wage series.  In this article, we look at recent contract settlements and examine how those trends vary from previous years. 

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Information IS Power and Premium Website Subscribers Have the Information – AND the Power

By Jim Cline

Public safety contract negotiations and enforcement has been particularly challenging over the past few years. For the tumultuous 2020 to the legislative (over)reaction in 2021, to the recent wild swings in inflations, this period has made it especially clear for the need of labor reps to stay current and fully informed on developments.

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Cline and Associates Released Year-End Contract Settlement and Wage Round Up With 2024 Projections

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

Today’s CPI article is the first in our exhaustive year end contract settlement and wage rankings. Clients and Premium Website Subscribers can get an advance preview of the data off the Premium website

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PART 1 of Negotiations and Settlement Trends: Will This Week’s CPI Report Show Diminishing Inflation – and What Does It Mean for Pending Negotiations?

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

We have been closely tracking and reporting on inflation trends. The recent “ups and downs” (in inflation has implications for the broader economy but it has some rather direct impacts on our contract negotiations. 

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Use of the OFM Population Numbers: Why Size Matters

By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer

In the past two newsletter issues, we reported on and discussed the annual OFM population numbers. As indicated, all the details of those numbers are posted on the Cline and Associates Premium Website. While the Cline and Associates Database tracks a wide range of demographic factors, Population remains the most important factor for the selection of negotiation “comparables.”

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