Category: Local Government Projects

Evergreen was hired by the City of Cleveland to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study. The goals of the study are 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; outline promotional opportunities and provide recognizable compensation growth; provide justifiable pay differential between individual classes; and maintain a competitive position with other comparable government entities and private employers within the same geographic areas.

Evergreen was hired by the City of Bell Gardens to perform Classification and Compensation Study Services. Evergreen will evaluate the present salary structure as compared to the specific job market for comparable positions in the public sectors, review current job classifications, confirm, and recommend changes to hierarchical order of jobs. Evergreen will also identify potential pay compression issues and provide potential solutions and analyze and make recommendations for changes to the present compensation structure to remain competitive in the job market.

Evergreen was hired by Rock Island County to conduct an Organizational Design Study of the Finance Department. Evergreen will perform the high level tasks: analyze the business needs of the County and identify the rationale for creating a new finance department; set clear, measurable goals for the new department aligned with organizational objectives; conduct a Situational Analysis: Assess existing capabilities, gaps, and potential challenges within the County; develop a department structure: design the department hierarchy, identify key roles, and assign responsibilities to include benchmarks and best practices; create a staffing plan; determine hiring needs and develop recruitment strategies; outline operational processes by defining major workflows, procedures, and standards within the department; allocate resources by estimating operational budgets for the department, technology, and support staff to the new department; develop an implementation plan with a phased approach; establish a communication strategy on how to inform stakeholders about the new department and its goals; and monitor and evaluate performance by setting up metrics to track progress and make adjustments as needed.

Evergreen was hired by the City of Bellingham to conduct a Job Classification Market Study. Evergreen will perform the following tasks: conduct a market pay evaluation; collect salary and benefit data for a total compensation analysis; review job descriptions for all benchmark positions; conduct a job analysis of all bargaining unit classifications; conduct job analysis interviews; analyze the internal pay relationship between positions; produce recommendations on strategy options for a more effective management of compression issues; and develop tools and guidelines for implementing changes to the classification and compensation plans; and provide necessary instruction to the City to maintain recommendations.

Evergreen was hired by the City of Riverdale to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study and Analysis. Evergreen will perform the following: provide a comprehensive evaluation of every job within the city to determine relative worth within the organization for internal equity; review all current job classifications and recommend changes to the hierarchical order of jobs; establish appropriate benchmarking standards and conduct a market salary survey; identify potential pay compression issues and provide potential solutions; analyze and recommend changes to the present compensation structure; and develop guidelines to assist City staff with determining the starting pay for new employees.

Evergreen was hired by Manatee County to conduct an IT Organizational Design Study. The results of the study will provide answers to the following questions: Should IT services be more centralized or decentralized? What is the optimal process allocation from an organizational design standpoint? What is the best structure to increase efficiency and effectiveness?

Note: Evergreen was previously hired by the County in 2023 to conduct a Staffing and Headcount Study for the IT Department and a Compensation Study.