Hartford County, MD; Classification and Compensation Study and Time Use Study

Evergreen is retained by Harford County to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study for the County’s 1,200 full-time employees. The purpose of this study is to address changes in the County’s operations and staffing. The objectives of this 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 matching with assigned duties; clearly 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 area proposed by the consultant with consideration from the County; and implement strategies to improve efficiency, streamline processes, optimize productivity.