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Malena Halverson-Mays

48:07 - 48:40

“that is to place all of your employees on the step within their pay grade closest to what they were earning in an hourly rate of pay without a decrease. No employee gets any cut in pay. Okay, that is your least expensive option, and that least expensive option at this point is coming with a price tag of about $300,000 plus your benefit roll-ups.”
Speaker
Malena Halverson-Mays
Community
Alaska News
Location
Kodiak
Captured at
November 4, 2026

From the transcript

The first one is what I would say the majority of our clients go with, and that is because it is the least costly at the time of implementation. Okay? And that is to place all of your employees on the step within their pay grade closest to what they were earning in an hourly rate of pay without a decrease. No employee gets any cut in pay. Okay, that is your least expensive option, and that least expensive option at this point is coming with a price tag of about $300,000 plus your benefit roll-ups.

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