INF-RFP-00096 · Response Companion

A total-compensation study
built for the Central Valley.

Five bargaining groups. Eight to ten comparator agencies. Base, cash supplements, certification pay, auto allowance, PERS retirement, and medical benefits — analyzed in one defensible methodology by House Strategies Group for the City of Modesto.

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Workforce in Scope

1,823 employees · 5 bargaining groups · 361 classifications

Confidential & Mgmt

Modesto Confidential & Management Association

~220 incumbents

MCEA (general)

Modesto City Employee's Association

~1,265 incumbents

POA (sworn)

Modesto Police Officers Association

~210 incumbents

Police Non-Sworn

Modesto Police Non-Sworn Association

~75 incumbents

Unrepresented

Modesto Unrepresented Employees

~53 incumbents

Incumbent counts illustrative; final headcount reconciled against authoritative City HRIS at engagement award.

What This Engagement Delivers

Four lenses on Modesto's compensation reality.

Most public-sector comp studies stop at base salary. Modesto's workforce — like any California city — lives in a world where pension, medical, and special pays drive most of the difference. We model all of it.

Total Compensation Stack

Base salary, cash supplements, certification pay, auto allowance, PERS retirement, and medical benefits — modeled per classification, per bargaining group.

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Pension & Benefits Modeling

CalPERS Classic vs. PEPRA tiers, employer contribution rates, and medical/dental/vision/retiree-health share — the 60% of total comp most studies under-resource.

Pension & Benefits Detail

Central Valley Comparator Set

8–10 peer agencies sourced from Stockton, Tracy, Manteca, Turlock, Merced, Fresno, Sacramento, Bakersfield, Visalia, Lodi — population, structure, and labor-market matched.

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MOU-Cycle Cost Modeling

Move the slider, see the City-wide annualized cost of any wage movement — with pensionable-pay rollup for sworn classifications. The deliverable beyond a typical comp study.

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Why HSG

Five reasons our methodology fits Modesto.

01

Defensibly human-validated AI methodology

Every AI output reconciled by a credentialed analyst before it reaches the City.

02

Central Valley labor-market fluency

Peer-set rationale, classification structure, and salary-ordinance idiom built for Modesto's region.

03

Five-bargaining-unit complexity, including sworn and non-sworn police

POST cert tiering, FLSA 7(k), CalPERS Classic vs. PEPRA, specialty pays — handled, not flagged.

04

MOU-cycle-ready recommendations

Tiered as immediate / next-MOU / structural — for adoption by City Council, not a report on a shelf.

05

Live response companion at modesto.housestrategiesgroup.com

What you see here is the analytical product the City would receive post-award — already built.

Response Companion

This portal is the analytical product Modesto would receive — already built.

Every chart, every table, every modeling tool here is what we'll deliver — sharper, populated with Modesto's actual data, on a 6-month engagement clock.

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