Evergreen Solutions was engaged with San Patricio County to conduct a Classification and Compensation Study and Analysis. The purpose of the study was to address changes in San Patricio County operations and staffing over the past decades, which might have affected the type, scope, and level of work being performed. The primary 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; 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.