Evergreen Solutions was engaged with the Town of Carolina Beach to conduct a management, organizational structure, and efficiency study. The objective of this study was to review all Town Departments, current management structure, staffing, and current/future staff workloads and to make recommendations regarding the most effective and efficient management and organizational structure and staffing to meet the service levels expected by elected officials, Town residents, business owners, and visitors. The study was performed in conformance with the following directives: review current and past organizational structures and staffing levels; review and summarize current services provided and staff workloads for all departments (winter and summer); determine what is working well with the Town’s organizational structure and staffing levels and determine the areas that may need improvement; compare and contrast the Town’s organizational structure, services, and staffing levels with other similar sized cities in North Carolina and other industry staffing standards, if available; review current and future Town services and workloads to determine the most effective and efficient management and organizational structure to meet the demands and expectations of elected officials, Town residents, business owners, and visitors; review current and future Town tax structure to other towns of similar size and makeup; determine a method of assessing the health of the organization’s culture, internal relationships, and attitudes toward the workplace. As a result of the assessment, Evergreen determined effective measures to improve those areas that need addressing; determined cost saving measures that could be implemented that would allow similar or increased levels of service and that would improve overall efficiency; and identified performance measures that would result in assessing the effectiveness of those recommendations that were to be implemented.
Spokane County, WA: Classification Study
Evergreen was retained again by Spokane County to conduct a Classification Study. Evergreen conducted a job analysis to determine internal equity and provided recommendations regarding the appropriate classification structure. Evergreen also reviewed and revised job descriptions and make FLSA determinations.
Beaufort County, SC: Classification and Compensation Study Services
Evergreen was engaged with Beaufort County to provide Classification and Compensation Study Services. The purpose of the study was to address changes in county operations and staffing over the past decades, which might have affected the type, scope, and level of work being performed. The objectives of the study were to: attract and retain qualified employees; ensure positions performing similar work with essentially the same level of complexity, responsibility, and knowledge, skills, and abilities are classified together; provide salaries commensurate with assigned duties; clearly outline promotional opportunities and provide recognizable compensation growth; provide justifiable pay differentials between individual classes; and maintain a competitive position with other comparable governmental entities and private employers within the same geographic area.
City of Urbana, IL: Classification and Compensation Study Services
Our firm is engaged with the City of Urbana to provide Classification and Compensation Study Services. The City of Urbana seeks to achieve the following goals: 1. Maintain a high level of employee satisfaction by providing a classification and compensation system that is both fair and competitive. 2. Demonstrate fiscal responsibility to the community by providing a classification and compensation system that makes the best of The City’s financial resources. 3. Ensure a close alignment between pay and performance by providing a classification and compensation system that rewards merit.
City of Portland, TX: Classification and Compensation Study
Evergreen was engaged with the City of Portland (City) to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study. Evergreen’s consultants evaluated every job within the City and the current pay and benefits structure. A market survey of salary and benefits was conducted among peers approved by the City. Based on the survey results, Evergreen made recommendations for changes to the current classification and compensation systems, as well as provided a maintenance system that the Human Resources Department could use to keep the systems current and equitable. Training on this maintenance system was provided.
Charles County Government, MD: Compensation and Classification Study
Evergreen Solutions was engaged with Charles County Government, Maryland to conduct a Compensation and Classification Study that provided a new classification system; market analysis; new pay plan; compression analysis; and recommendations for pay incentives, supplements, and policies.
Ogden City, UT: Classification, Compensation and Benefits Study
Evergreen Solutions was engaged with Ogden City Corporation to conduct a Classification, Compensation and Benefits Study. The goals of this study were to ensure that job descriptions accurately reflect actual duties and maintain compensation levels that are both internally and externally equitable. Evergreen worked with Ogden City Corporation throughout four project phases that involved conducting a job analysis, building a classification plan; documenting a compensation philosophy; reviewing and analyzing the City’s total compensation plan, including a market salary and benefits survey; and providing a comprehensive report containing recommendations, an implementation approach, and guidelines for maintaining classification and compensation policy updates and changes.
Marshall County Personnel Board, AL: Classification and Compensation Study
Evergreen Solutions was retained by the Marshall County Personnel Board to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study for approximately 183 employees who fell under the auspices of the Personnel Board. In order to competitively recruit and retain employees, motivate employees to excel in job performance, and structure work to provide the best service to the community, Evergreen collected, reviewed, and evaluated current compensation and classification data for the County. Evergreen also worked with the County to identify benchmarks and targets for the market survey and provide strategic positioning recommendations. A final report, including the costs associated with all recommendations and an implementation strategy was provided to the County. In addition, Evergreen reviewed the County’s current performance evaluation system and developed a new tool for each major job group.
City of Alpharetta, GA: Comprehensive Pay and Classification Study
Evergreen Solutions was again hired by the City of Alpharetta to perform a Comprehensive Pay and Classification Study. Evergreen reviewed the current environment within the City to identify strengths and weaknesses of the compensation and classification systems; utilized Evergreen’s Job Assessment Tool© to assess classifications of existing job positions and built a projected classification plan to include revised and new class descriptions, and FLSA determinations; identified a list of targets to include in the market survey and provided an external assessment summary; developed strategic improvement recommendations for the City, including assessing the appropriateness of the existing compensation philosophy; developed pay plans that best met the needs of the City, and made recommendations to sustain the classification and compensation systems. Evergreen completed a previous study for the City of Alpharetta in 2014.
Spartanburg County / City of Spartanburg / Spartanburg County Public Library, SC: Classification and Compensation Study
Spartanburg County retained Evergreen to complete a Classification and Compensation Study for the County, City, and County’s Library which included over 2000 employees. Evergreen’s consultants established a timeline to determine project milestones for the project and evaluated current employee data for each entity. Evergreen developed a classification plan, worked with the County’s Project Manager to identify and survey targets for a salary survey, to provide an External Assessment Summary based on survey results; proposed strategic positioning recommendations, and conducted a final solution analysis. Evergreen recommended procedures for implementation and the continued maintenance and administration of the new pay plans.