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Malena Halverson-Mays

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“So what we're finding is that the majority of the positions really do need to be moved.”
Speaker
Malena Halverson-Mays
Community
Alaska News
Location
Kodiak
Captured at
November 4, 2026

From the transcript

Okay, not probably surprising. And this might be because you have not been able to or have not applied economic economic cost of living to the current ranges, or they just haven't been studied over the course of, of, of a few years. So what we're finding is that the majority of the positions really do need to be moved. And again, this is against the average. If the city determines that it wants to take a more aggressive approach, then we're going to have a little bit more ground to cover financially to get those ranges up to the 60th percentile.

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