At the beginning of each year, the Municipal Association of SC asks human resources staff and city clerks to update their cities' compensation information for the Association's online compensation survey. The survey serves as an annual report of wages and salaries of South Carolina municipal employees and elected officials.
City and town leaders know that competitive wages and salaries are some of the most critical tools municipalities have to attract and retain valuable employees. Cities and towns compete for candidates from the same pool as state agencies, county governments and private-sector employees, and having current salary information helps cities and towns recruit. Municipalities can use this online tool to make sure that their compensation scale is competitive with other municipalities with comparable populations and budgets. The Association makes the data from its compensation survey available online.
While participating in the survey is optional, the Association encourages all municipalities to complete the online survey every year, since strong participation makes the data more useful. The 2020 survey will be available for data entry from January 3 to February 21.