Latest News, News The Camas City Council this week approved a 4.5-percent cost-of-living boost for the city’s non-represented employees’ — those who are not part of a union or represented by a collective bargaining agreement. The adjustment will be effective Jan. 1, 2022.
The salary adjustments, which increase the salary range for the city’s police and fire chiefs; department heads, soon-to-be hired city administrator and other non-represented employees, will cost the city nearly $220,000 in 2022.
Jennifer Gorsuch, the city’s administrative services director, told city council members in October the proposed salary increases were meant to keep pace with a significant jump in the cost of living from July 2020 to July 2021.
“The change in the cost of living index … was 5.9 percent (from 2020 to 2021),” Gorsuch noted in the staff report sent to council members in late October.
During their Monday, Dec. 6, council meeting, the city council members also approved salary increases for the city’s seasonal employees to meet the new 2022 Washington state minimum wage rules.
