Curry County employees receive pay hikes

Curry County employees are receiving an annual cost of living allowance pay increase effective today.

Curry County commissioners met Thursday to approve the pay hike unanimously.

County Manager Lance Pyle said the $336,000 annually needed for the increase is in the county coffers.

The pay hike was set up in this fashion according to the resolution:

• Effective Nov. 10, all county employees who have completed one full year of continuous employment with Curry County shall receive a 3.5% pay increase.

• The 3.5% increase does not include court deputies, court corporal, sheriff deputies, senior sheriff deputies, detention officers, and senior detention officers,

• Those employees who have not completed one full year of continuous employment by Nov. 10, 2024, will receive a 3.50% increase the day after they have completed their one (1)

full year of employment with the county.

• Effective today, court deputies, court corporal, sheriff deputies, senior sheriff deputies, detention officers, and senior detention officers who have completed one full year of continuous employment with Curry County shall receive a 5.5% pay increase.

• Those employees in the specified court, sheriff’s department and detention department who have not completed one full year of continuous employment by Nov. 10, 2024 will receive a 5.5% increase the day after they have completed their one full year of employment with the County.

• A longevity increase was also approved.

“Employees who have at least 60 months, but less than 120 months of service shall receive half-a-percent increase; Employees who have been employed at least 120 months, but less than 180 months shall receive three- quarters-of-a-percent increase; Employees who have been employed 180 months, but less than 240 months shall receive a one percent increase; Employees who have been employed 240 months or more will receive one-and-a-quarter percent increase.”

Also at the meeting, commissioners approved a resolution to not support an amendment in the state construction code by the New Mexico Construction Industries Commission mandating electric vehicle charging stations on new, and other remodeled, residential dwellings.