§77-13 Salary structures and schedules for white-collar positions.
(a) The salary structures for white-collar positions covered under this chapter shall be comprised of thirty-one salary ranges, designated SR 4 to SR 31, SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3. In the publication of pay schedules, however, salary ranges may be redesignated and salary ranges which are not being used may be excluded from the respective pay schedules; provided that if SC ranges are being used, they shall be identified as such so that subsection (d) remains applicable. Each salary range shall consist of ten steps, designated B to G and L-1 to L-4; provided that range SC-2 shall consist of nine steps, designated B to G, L-1, L-2, and L-3, and range SC-3 shall consist of eight steps, designated B to G, L-1, and L-2.(b) The salary schedules applicable to employees in white-collar positions, who are included in appropriate bargaining units under section 89-6(a), shall be subject to negotiations. The salary schedules applicable to employees in nonmanagerial white-collar positions, who are excluded from coverage under chapter 89, shall be subject to chapter 89C.
(c) Whenever payment is made on the basis of monthly, weekly, hourly, or daily rate, the rate shall be computed in the following manner:
(1) By dividing the annual rate by twelve in order to find the monthly rate;
(2) By dividing the annual rate by fifty-two in order to find the weekly rate;
(3) By dividing the weekly rate by forty in order to find the hourly rate; and
(4) By multiplying the hourly rate by the number of daily hours of service required in order to find the daily rate.
(d) Salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 shall be utilized in the following manner:
(1) Salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 may be utilized by the State, the judiciary, counties, and the Hawaii health systems corporation for physician and psychiatrist positions;
(2) No position shall be classified and paid in salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 unless specifically recommended by the director of human resources development and approved by the governor, recommended by the administrative director of the courts and approved by the chief justice, or recommended by the personnel director of a county and approved by the respective council and mayor or recommended by the Hawaii health systems corporation chief executive officer's designee and approved by the chief executive officer;
(3) There shall be at any given period not more than sixteen positions classified and paid in salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 by the State, not more than two positions classified and paid in salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 by the judiciary, and not more than eight positions classified and paid in salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 by any county. Psychiatrist and physician positions shall be excluded from the above-mentioned totals; and
(4) The director of human resources development, the administrative director of the courts, and the personnel directors of each county shall report annually to the legislature as to the manner in which the positions assigned to salary ranges SC-1, SC-2, and SC-3 are being used. [L 1955, c 274, pt of §2; RL 1955, §4-10; am L 1956, c 2, §4; am L 1957, c 148, §1(c); am L 1959, c 255, §3(a), (c); am L 1962, c 28, §18; am L 1965, c 223, §§1, 4; am imp L 1967, c 302, §2; HRS §77-13; am L 1969, c 127, §17; am L 1970, c 118, §2; am L 1973, c 177, §4; am L 1980, c 144, §1, c 253, §4, and c 254, §2; am L 1981, c 205, §3; am L 1982, c 152, §4; am L 1987, c 283, §10; am L 1992, c 253, §1; am L 1994, c 56, §10; am L 1996, c 262, §12]