Longevity Pay is not about job performance, it is just about notching another year in the seniority belt. It was stopped for new hires in 2011, so pre-2011 employees with the highest salary and the many hired before 2005 with the pension plan, get an even bigger boost.
Longevity pay costs the taxpayers enormously! It creates a hierarchy that is unfair to younger employees. The practice needs to end now, not 6 years from now. Pay should be based on performance, period.
5 years of full time service = 2% of base salary 10 years of full time service = 4% of base salary
15 years of full time service = 6% of base salary 20 years of full time service = 8% of base salary
25 years of full time service = 10% of base salary
EXAMPLE: $100,000 salary = $10,000 longevity bonus plus 2.5% annual bonus.
