A study finds that San Diego ranks 14th out of 18 cities — all selected for having a high cost of living — when it comes to pay as a percentage of a living wage.
San Diego needs to boost pay for its frontline homeless services workers. That was the key takeaway from a presentation by a city housing official at a recent conference put on by the Regional Task Force on Homelessness.
Even Austin, Texas, which ranked first, compensates its homeless-services workers only 83 percent of the city’s annual cost of living. Four cities performed worse than San Diego: New York‘s workers are paid 59 percent of its cost of living, while Boston, Miami and San Francisco each pay their homeless-services workers 57 percent, on average. Los Angeles, the study found, pays 66 percent.
Compensation, the city-commissioned study found, ranges from $36,061 for a residential facility specialist to $54,273 for a substance abuse counselor. Frontline staff are disproportionately Black and Latinx, Jones noted.The compensation study is part of a larger effort to recruit and retain workers as the city expands its outreach efforts. The city has also focused attention on self-care resources for homeless-services contractors, offering wellness events and peer support.
Hanan Scrapper, PATH’s regional director, said her organization is working on an internal compensation study that should be completed by the end of this year. Plans are to follow it with organization-wide salary increases.
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