Webinar: Compensation Challenges
Recorded On: 08/29/2024
Please join us on August 29, 2024, at 1:00 pm ET for a discussion on compensation challenges. Learn how your peers are leveraging their compensation packages to remain competitive and attract and retain qualified public sector employees. Learn what has helped their agencies overcome some of their compensation challenges. They will also present their compensation case studies, discuss their similarities, and challenges. Don’t miss your opportunity to gain knowledge from your peer’s experiences and ask them questions.
Case Study – State of Oklahoma: This case study will discuss the recent internal and external review of State of Oklahoma employee salaries and job codes by the State of Oklahoma Human Capital Management division with third party market value salary benchmarking comparisons conducted by Ernst & Young Accounting. It will briefly touch on the ongoing multi-year project of job catalog revision, job coding, and discuss progress updates to the project along with challenges the state faces in its efforts to attract and retain qualified public sector employees.
Case Study – Lehi City: In the past 12 months, Lehi City, Utah faced increased difficulty retaining and recruiting engineering and trade positions – HVAC, electrician, plumbing, and fleet mechanics—to the private sector. This case study will share various compensation analyses and market sources used to remain competitive and attract interested candidates to the public sector.
Speakers:
- David Kitchen, HR Director at Lehi City, Utah, and Director at Compensation Survey System
- David Morgan, Director of Human Resources & Open Records, Office of the State Treasurer, Oklahoma City, OK
This webinar is available to members (no additional fee required) and non-members (nominal fee required).
David Kitchen
HR Director
Lehi City, Utah
David Kitchen is the HR Director at Lehi City, Utah. He loves to CONNECT and EMPOWER employees and managers of the public sector. He has 15 years of HR experience working at the local government and state. HR is his career and passion. When he is not thinking about HR, he loves to spend his free time with his wife and three boys working on projects around the home, having family movie nights, doing puzzles, and learning from others.
David Morgan, MSHRM, PSHRA-SCP, NCPM
PSHRA Certification Advisory Board Member, Human Resources Professional, Organizational Developer, Certified Civil Mediator
Edmond, Oklahoma
David is a resident of Edmond, Oklahoma and currently serves as Vice President of the Oklahoma Chapter of PSHRA. He currently serves PSHRA at the national level as a member of the Veterans Committee and Certification Advisory Board. He has been a member of PSHRA since 2021.
He is a vision and solutions-driven human resource executive specializing in full-service human resource services such as talent retention and recruiting, employee relations, organizational operations, executive leadership, strategic planning, data management, budgeting, and employee compensation plans. He enjoys communicating ideas to others and bringing functional groups together for a common goal. He is dedicated to professionalism and producing measurable results. His most recent public sector experience was serving as the Director of Human Resources & Open Records for the Office of the Oklahoma State Treasurer.
He holds a Master of Science in Human Resource Management, Bachelor of Science in Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He is an Oklahoma Supreme Court and nationally certified Civil Mediator, a Master Training Specialist, PSHRA Senior Certified Professional, and is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy.