Five unrepresented employee group compensation plans OK’d

Compensation packages for nearly 3,500 employees across five plans comprise a new law .

Approved by the bipartisan Subcommittee on Employee Relations in December 2023, each is for the 2024-25 biennium, and effective retroactively to July 1, 2023. Affected employees are not covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Rep. Leon Lillie (DFL-North St. Paul) and Sen. Zaynab Mohamed (DFL-Mpls) sponsor the law that took effect May 9, 2024.

Four plans negotiated through Minnesota Management and Budget — Commissioner’s Plan, Managerial Plan, Office of Higher Education Unclassified Personnel Compensation Plan, and MNsure Compensation Plan — call for 5.5% salary increases effective July 1, 2023, and 4.5% on July 1, 2024. Among other provisions are performance-based increases in all, and employer match contribution to deferred compensation would increase for three of the four.

The Minnesota State Administrators Plan includes 2.5% increases each year of the current biennium, merit-based increase pool, and salary ranges would increase 5% each year.

[MORE: Summary of plans and costs]

The salary increases will be absorbed by the current agency operating budgets .

HF4310*/SF4890/CH100

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