According to the Antioch City Council Agenda, on Tuesday, the city council will discuss adopting a resolution that would increase the hourly rate salary schedule for employees working in a Police Trainee Classification in the City of Antioch.
For the first time in 13-years (2005), Antioch Police are seeking to increase the current hourly rate of $21.00 to $31.80.
The fiscal impact per employee would be a maximum of $11,091 and assumes the Police Trainee is required to attend a full 1027-hour California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certified academy—without the POST training, the fiscal impact will be lower.
The move is aimed to assist the Antioch Police Department to increase police recruiting to fill sown police officer vacancies. Police say over the past several months, qualified candidates currently applying have withdrawn from the application process and opted to accept employment for a competing agency with a higher salary.
The staff report states:
“On more than one occasion, the prospective candidate stated he/she could not afford to accept existing hourly rate due to currently financial obligations and the high cost of living in the Bay Area.”
In a recent salary survey of 14 municipalities, Antioch Police Training hourly rate was second lowest at $21 with the City of Concord being the lowest at $19.96 per hour. Meanwhile, the City of Berkley was the highest at $38.37 – a full list of the salary survey was not provided in the staff report.
According to the City of Richmond, their police trainees make a flat $4,000 per month. In the City of Livermore, Trainees are initially hired in a non-sworn civilian classification and earning $31.65 per hour with benefits while attending the Police Academy.
The City of Antioch job listings Monday Morning, once hired, a Police officer with the Department can make between $7,875 to $9,572 per month as a lateral police officer ($94,500 – $114,864 annually) or as an academy graduate/student, make $8,071 to $9,811 per month ($96,852 – $117,732 annually)
This is one of the first moves made by the Police Department since the passage of Measure W, however, because Measure W funding is not going o be collected until April 2019, this funding will likely come from Measure C funds.
It is also unclear how the Antioch City Council will spend Measure W since the budget will not be determined until the budget cycle sometime in early 2019.
In November of 2016, the Antioch City Council approved a 4.5% raise for Antioch Police Officers to help make them more competitive.
Current listings for Lateral Police Officer Jobs:
- Livermore – $126,084 (top step)
- San Francisco: $84,682 to $124,930
- Berkeley – $98,487.58 – $122,576.48
- Richmond – $99,578 – $114,864
- Antioch – $94,500 – $114,864
- Concord – $85,488 – $114,316
- Oakley – $79,416 – $114,552
- Walnut Creek: $90,539 – $110,001
- Pleasant Hill: $78,468 – $106,404
- BART – $93,864 (top step)
Current listings for Police Officer jobs
- San Francisco: $84,682.00 – $124,930.00
- Antioch: $96,852.00 – $117,732.00
- Walnut Creek: $90,539.28 – $110,001.06
- Brentwood – $90,888 – $110,474
- Pittsburg – $70,872 – $94,968
- Berkeley – $82,203.25
- BART – $66,480 – $93,864
- Pleasant Hill: $65,196
Note – benefits not included in salaries
If You Go:
Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 6:00 pm
200 H Street, City of Antioch
For the full staff report, click here.
6 comments
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I have no more trust in Ron Bernal as City Manager and Sean Wright as Mayor in this city. This is Measure C all over again. The first thing they did with Measure C was given PD a sweetheart raise. First thing they do with Measure W passage is sweetheart training pay rate increase. This city does not have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem.
No one can live on 21 bucks an hour. Raise it up.
Hey Billy Moony go move somewhere where you can trust the city mgr and mayor and you won’t have any issues period.
Huh. So Antioch is at the top of the pay scale for agencies in the county. But with all the talk leading up to the election on Measure W was that the city desperately needed pay parity with other nearby cities. The city’s own existence relied on passing Measure W. With lower pay, they can’t attract qualified candidates.
Maybe there’s a little more at play here. Qualified candidates are choosing to work elsewhere in the immediate area for a little less starting pay just to work in a safer community…
BTW, Walnut Creek just opened a trainee position that’s paid less than the proposed new rate for Antioch trainees. Who would you prefer to work for if you were a young adult wanting to enter law enforcement?
People should try to be a little better informed. For example, many officers have moved to work here in Antioch from Brentwood and other nearby ciities. However, reading some of the posts, it sounds clear that a single fact or claim often leads to wild, speculative, and incorrect conclusions. Good police are in demand so maybe more people should show police officers full respect when a few people blame the hard working, life risking police in our city.
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