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Chairman Scurlock believed this survey shows that the only place there is a great disparity in the benefits package is on the dependent coverage. He asked what percentage of our employees have dependent coverage, and Director Blankenship believed that it is a substantial figure, at least 50% or more. He noted that we pay 90.8% of the dependent coverage. !he Chairman felt that would be one area to consider in terms of freezing the county's contribution for future increases to bring the single employee into line in comparison to the family. Director Blankenship agreed that in most organizations the employer pays an average of 50% for the dependent coverage where we are paying the lion's share. The Chairman felt we need to get some input from the employees on their feeling about insurance benefits as compared to higher pay. He pointed out that you don't pay taxes on the fringe benefits. Director Blankenship believed it would be a safe assumption to make on the basis of the recommendation of TPF&C, insofar as base salaries are concerned, that you can add 22% onto that as an additional benefit cost. He pointed out some of these costs are fixed and they won't change no matter what we do. Social Security still has to be paid - the retirement contribution has to be paid, and that is 20% right there. Then the only mandated costs which would increase are Workmen's Compensation and group life insurance, and those charges are minimal. Taxes are the things that kill us in a compensation program. Discussion on the plan in general followed, and the Chairman noted that on the summary of total points the Sheriff is a 746 and our Director of Emergency Services is 818. Director Blankenship noted that they didn't really survey the Sheriff, and Ms. Deeb advised that when she talked about job evaluation, they sat down with a representative from each of the APR 1988 20 B00K 72 PAGE 153