Annual setting of classifications, pay plans and benefits.

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 18-5

in effect

Sec. 18-5. - Annual setting of classifications, pay plans and benefits. (a) Pay plan adjustments; exceptions. On or before September 1 of each year, the career service board shall recommend classification and pay plan adjustments to the mayor and city council for all job classifications in the career service and for job classifications not in the career service based upon the duties of the job classifications except: those to which the provisions of section 9.2.1 of the Charter apply; the ranks in the classified service of the fire and police departments; deputy sheriffs, deputy sheriff majors, and deputy sheriff division chiefs; and other employees whose classification, pay plan, and attendant pay rates, are set in accordance with collective bargaining agreements pursuant to Article IX, Part 10 of the Charter. Any pay rate recommended by the board shall provide like pay for like work and shall be based on annual surveys of generally prevailing pay rates in the Denver metropolitan area or in other appropriate geographic areas so long as such survey data has been adjusted to the Denver market using economic adjustment tools. (b) Annual implementation of pay plan adjustments. The mayor and the city council may accept, reject or modify any pay recommendation made by the board or the director pursuant to this section. The pay recommendations accepted or modified by the mayor and the city council shall be implemented in accordance with the career service rules. (1) The annual ordinance implementing the pay plan adjustments in accordance with this section and updating the classification and pay plan shall incorporate any interim adjustments to the classification and pay plan made by the executive director of the office of human resources as provided in section 18-42(d), to the extent the city council chooses to ratify such interim adjustments. (c) Benefits. Upon the request of the mayor or the city council, the office of human resources executive director shall survey and recommend changes to employee benefits as necessary to attract and retain a qualified and competent workforce and to maintain the city's policy to provide generally prevailing compensation to employees in the classifications set forth in subsection (a) of this section. The director shall consult with and obtain a recommendation from the employee health insurance committee as provided in division 2 of article VI of this chapter prior to recommending any change to health insurance benefits. The mayor and the city council may accept, reject or modify any benefit recommendation made by the director pursuant to this section. (d) Audit of survey methodologies and recommendations. In 2006 and not less than once every four (4) years thereafter, the mayor shall commission an independent audit of survey methodologies, determinations regarding generally prevailing rates and prevailing practices, and recommendations regarding pay rates and benefits made by the career service board or the office of human resources executive director in the preceding year. Results of the independent audit shall be provided by the mayor to the city council, the career service board and the office of human resources executive director. (Ord. No. 959-05, § 1, 12-19-05; Ord. No. 288-09, § 1, 5-18-09; Ord. No. 571-10, § 1, 10-18-10; Ord. No. 661-12, § 3, 12-26-12; Ord. No. 156-18, § 1, 3-5-18; Ord. No. 233-21, § 4, 3-30-21; Ord. No. 218-23, § 1, 3-28-23; Ord. No. 1556-25, § 2, 12-15-25)

Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH18EMOFPABE_ARTIOFHURE_S18-5ANSECLPAPLBEFetched: 10/27/2026