Pay for County employees in Fiscal Year 2025-2026 was the main issue addressed at Tuesday’s Jasper County Board of Supervisors meeting, as wage negotiations with Union leaders representing those employees have apparently stalled. Many county employees with the AFSCME and PPME Labor Unions were on hand as three separate resolutions were unanimously passed by Board members Brandon Talsma, Doug Cupples, and Thad Nearmyer. Jasper County Human Resources Director Dennis Simon told those bargaining employees these pay changes are the best the county can offer.

“That is our last final offer. If that’s not accepted, then we are at an impasse.”

Based on the resolutions passed by the Jasper County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, current step increases and pay plans for all county employees will end effective July 1st, while pay increases to base wages take effect. All hourly Jasper county employees covered by collective bargaining agreements (AFSCME & PPME) will get a 4% increase, while base wages for all hourly non-bargaining employees and non department head salaried employees will go up 2%.

Also starting July 1st, Jasper County will have new longevity and shift differential pay. Full and part-time employees eligible for the extra compensation will receive longevity pay raises of 50-cents per hour after five years of service, a dollar after ten years, $1.50 after fifteen years, and two dollars after twenty years. Shift differential pay has been approved at seventy-five cents per hour for any regular scheduled permanent shift with four or more hours between 3 P.M. and 11 P.M., and one dollar per hour in which four or more hours occur between 11 P.M. and 8 A.M. Employees will earn shift differential pay for all hours worked.