County raises its minimum wage to $10.50/hr in budget

Posted on September 16, 2015

Under the tentative $40.2 million budget approved Monday by the Taylor County Commission, all full-time county employees will be paid a minimum of $10.50 an hour.

Much of the budget discussions this year, which spanned several lengthy workshops in July, were over salaries. The initial budget presented at the start of the workshops included a series of proposed salary increases, the majority of which the result of County Administrator Dustin Hinkel’s attempts to further implement the county’s new pay scale structure based on a study the board commissioned in 2014.

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