Local News in Brief : City Council OKs 7% Pay Raises
The Hawthorne City Council has approved 7% annual raises for police, fire and other city employees in 2-year contracts effective July, 1988, through July, 1990.
The increase will bring Hawthorne city workers’ salaries and benefits up to median levels in comparable cities, according to City Manager R. Kenneth Jue.
Hawthorne employees in the early 1980s had the highest salaries among South Bay cities, but their ranking slipped in subsequent years because the city lost two major sources of revenue, Jue said. The city lost $1 million a year in sales tax revenues when Hewlett Packard moved to Westchester in 1986, and at roughly the same time, it lost about $600,000 a year in federal revenue sharing funds, he said.
The 7% increase applies to police and fire department personnel, members of the Hawthorne Employees Assn. and of the Teamsters Public, Professional and Medical Employees Union.
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