The Boulet administration’s first budget proposes significant pay increases for low-wage staff across departments. The pay plan targets severe worker shortages at Lafayette Consolidated Government. Some departments have vacancy rates of 25% or more.
The plan would raise LCG’s minimum wage for civil service employees to $12/hour and increase salaries for some other employees by as much as 30%, according to The Acadiana Advocate.
If approved, the pay raises would cost $7.6 million but would not apply to department directors, positions in the mayor-president’s office and grant funded positions. Other workers would receive routine 2% cost-of-living pay increases.