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Half Of Broward County Workforce Getting Extra Raise

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Half the Broward County government workforce has been deemed underpaid and will get extra raises come January.

County commissioners agreed to the $10.4 million salary boost recently, after a consultant warned that the county pay scale is no longer competitive. Without a financial reckoning, the consultant advised, the ultimate cost to taxpayers could be exponentially higher, as employees are poached away and the county struggles to replace them.

"When we lose people, we lose experience. We lose knowledge,'' Commissioner Dale Holness said. "And it costs us because we will then have to train new people to replace those.''

The study — the first of its kind in 20 years for the county — compared Broward's salaries to those in other government and private sector workplaces and found them lagging behind.

Read the full story on SunSentinel.com.

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