[StBernard] St. Bernard Employee Headcount/Payroll

[Westley Annis]

jd,
 
sounds like your leading to the concept that the payroll should have
decreased by the same percentage as the number of employees, but the payroll
costs include the extra work that has been done through overtime and the use
of temporary employees- while the council discontinued non-essential
overtime, and the overall payroll is down, the enormous increase in benefit
costs keep the payroll down by only about 32% compared to a 40% decrease of
employee numbers.  The significant decrease in the payroll will need to be
addressed as less manpower equals less results overall.
 
Good luck and God Bless,
Craig
 
 
-----Original Message-----
Today's article in the TP concerning the upcoming 2007 budget for the parish
compared current employee headcount of 350 to the pre-katrina headcount of
580. 
 
Of course it looks like the parish has a significant reduction in personnel
and payroll liability but the real question should be:  What was the
pre-katrina annual payroll for the 580 employees compared to the current
payroll for the 350 employees.  Even with escalation rates applied  it
should be  a interesting comparision. 
 
jd