OCEAN CITY – Some Ocean City employees who go above and beyond could be seeing a little extra in their paychecks soon after resort officials this week approved a proposed two-pronged incentive program.
During recent strategic planning sessions, a top priority for the town was coming up with a salary incentive program to reward those employees who consistently go above and beyond, or who perform exceptionally on a specific task or project. The town has been faced with the same hiring and retention challenges experienced by other jurisdictions and the private sector.
To that end, Human Resources Director Katie Callan, coordinating with City Manager Terry McGean and various department heads, was tasked with creating an employee pay incentive program or programs that would reward employees for excellent performance. Callan presented two proposals to the Mayor and Council during Tuesday’s work session.
“I’m presenting two incentive programs,” she said. “The town does not have a merit-based pay system. There is currently no system to pay for performance. As it stands, increases are distributed in an across-the-board manner.”
Callan said the two incentive programs, if approved, could help with employee retention, improve morale and serve as a catalyst to motivate employees to do better.
Cross-train some employees for jobs they can do part time on days off. Make the $$ attractive and enjoy the paid benefits savings.
I think it would be a good thing to have council members drive the trolley, sweep the boardwalk, empty some trash cans.
Maybe John Psota can learn something from this since at least 20 Wicomico employees have left and went to Worcester county in the last 5 years. Wicomico just spent 66k on a salary study and they still have almost 40 full time positions for hire. They just chunked money at positions mostly already overpaid department heads while good hard working employees in the trenches received very little as little as 40 cents on the hour. This has killed morale in most departments and lond time employees are leaving in drones.
Hey 10:00PM Can I get drone ride too ?
Figure out HOW to get people in town mid week first.