Chapter 06: Salary, Pension, and Insurance Data

The following table reflects all valid pension system codes for the 2027-29 biennial budget.

Requesting funding for pay increases. Most requests for salary adjustments are addressed through collective bargaining, but there are some exceptions.

Classified staff. Agency pay proposals for all classified positions, whether they are covered by collective bargaining agreements or not, are governed by the State HR process for classification and compensation proposals.

State HR will request funding for: (1) compensation adjustments they have negotiated, (2) multi-agency proposals they initiate, and (3) their recommended compensation adjustments for classified, nonrepresented positions after review through the classification and compensation proposal process.

WMS and exempt staff. Agencies seeking funding for pay adjustments for WMS or exempt employees should submit decision packages (DPs) with their budget requests.

Note for higher education institutions. Institutions that conduct their own collective bargaining should continue to submit requests for funding by October 1.  For additional information on the funding request process for higher education institutions, including compensation, please see Chapter 15 – Higher Education.

In developing DPs, agencies should use base salaries from the salary schedules published by State HR. If there are known tentative collective bargaining agreements that would affect the cost of a DP, agencies should estimate that impact and refer to them separately in the DP.

Discuss the use of any other compensation plan with your budget advisor before using it in a budget request. Agencies should not budget for overtime, sick leave, or shared leave.

Workers’ compensation costs (medical aid and industrial insurance). OFM will coordinate with the Office of Actuarial Services at the Department of Labor and Industries to determine agency rates and add workers’ compensation rate adjustments to agency budgets in the biennial budget. Agencies should not submit DPs for workers’ compensation in their biennial budget request.

In supplemental budgets, however, an agency may submit a DP for the portion of the rate adjustment that the agency believes it cannot accommodate in its budget.