Duties of salary recommendation panel.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 282-115
in effectSec. 282-115. - Duties of salary recommendation panel.
(a) The panel is directed to recommend the level of salary of each employing official, employee in city-county government whose compensation is derived primarily from a salary paid from the county treasury, and the state treasury when the law provides for salary payments by the state to a local official. Recommendations must be consistent with any statutory limitations on the compensation which may be paid by county government. Salaries of officers whose compensation may be determined by contract authorized by section 281-611 of the Code shall be excluded from panel review.
(b) In recommending each salary, the panel shall consider any other compensation of material value that is customarily provided to the employing official and employee, including fringe benefits. The panel shall also consider the length of the work day and work week and the number of days worked per year that is customary for the employing official and employee. In the context of these considerations, the panel shall employ the following four (4) criteria in recommending salaries and give them equal weight:
(1) Parity with city department and division heads;
(2) Comparability with private sector;
(3) Salary range in the city-county's normal classification system;
(4) Comparability with similar government organizations.
In instances where the employing official or employee is appointed and serves at the pleasure of a board or other official, the panel shall recommend a range of salaries, with the object of allowing the appointing authority to set the actual salary.
(c) The panel shall recommend salaries with the object of the recommendations being implemented on the first day of the coming calendar year, except in the case of employing officials who regularly serve terms greater than one (1) year. In these instances, the recommendations of the panel shall be made in the year prior to the year an individual is regularly selected to serve. In other years, the panel shall recommend only the amount of a cost of living adjustment.
(d) The panel may take action up to June 20 of the year of their appointment, at which time its recommendations shall be recorded by the clerk and certified by him to the controller. In the event the panel has taken no action to recommend a salary for an employing official and employee, the absence of a recommendation shall be treated as a recommendation that the salary or range of salaries for that employing official be left unchanged.
(G.O. 79, 1999, § 1; G.O. 30, 2002, § 1; G.O. 73, 2005, § 24; G.O. 42, 2016, § 2)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIORAD_CH282COAG_ARTICOCOSAREPA_S282-115DUSAREPAFetched: 10/27/2026