No More Big Pay Raises for Cops
The days of Las Vegas police getting raises of six to eight percent “are over,” said Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak.
Sisolak, vice chairman of Metro’s Fiscal Affairs Committee, said police can expect moderate salary increases—one to three percent—from now on, effectively putting an end to larger pay raises going forward.
Sisolak was responding to testimony in the Legislature, where a lobbyist for law enforcement associations said police sacrificed raises during the recession. Testimony was being taken on a bill that would give certain elected county employees—assessors, recorders, public defenders, sheriffs, clerks, and treasurers—raises of three percent over the next four years.
Lobbyist Ron Dreher, representing the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Nevada, told the Assembly Government Affairs Committee that he only knew of one new contract, in the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, that granted raises.
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