Washington Public Sector Labor Negotiations Blog
Trends and Developments Concerning Washington Public Labor Contracts
By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer
In the previous two articles in this wage series, we discussed the extent to which population and assessed valuation correlated with wage rankings. In this article, we discussed geographic location and the effect of various labor markets on public safety wages.
By Jim Cline and Kate Kremer
In the last issue we discussed whether – and to what extent — population influenced a jurisdiction’s relative wage ranking. In this article we discussed to what extent assessed valuation influences that ranking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
