Methodology Preview:Functional families and class counts are modeled to the City of Gainesville's ~570 classifications and ~1,500 employees per RFP HRDX-260051-WB. Salary, benefit, and pension figures shown here are illustrative, with production data populated from the City HRIS, the City's pension plans, the collective bargaining agreements, and the Florida comparator jurisdictions' adopted pay plans at engagement award.

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City of Gainesville · RFP HRDX-260051-WB

Scope note.The City confirmed in its Q&A that this study is focused on salary, pay ranges, and job structure, and that benefits sit outside scope. The modeling on this page is retained as context for total-cost discussion and is not part of the priced deliverable.

City Health Plan · Benefits

Employer monthly share by plan

The model shows the City of Gainesville's employer share across its medical tiers: a PPO, a standard PPO below it, and a High-Deductible Health Plan paired with an HSA, each varying by coverage tier. Dental, vision, group life and disability coverage sit alongside those. The employer share is the second-largest non-base line in total compensation, and it is set locally rather than by any statewide vehicle. Carrier names, the plan lineup and the election mix are confirmed against the City's own benefit schedule at kickoff rather than assumed here.

PPO Plan vs. HDHP

The PPO is the richest medical tier; a standard PPO sits below it, and the High-Deductible Health Plan pairs with an HSA. The City's election mix across these plans, and across the Employee-Only / Employee+Spouse / Employee+Child(ren) / Family coverage tiers, materially affects total benefit cost. We pull the actual mix at engagement award and weight the comp study accordingly.

Why benefits aren't ‘the same’ everywhere

Florida localities procure health coverage independently, and the election mix and employer-paid optional coverage (group life, vision tiers, disability) are set locally by each one. This is where Gainesville's benefits stack will diverge from peer jurisdictions, and where the City's own policy decisions matter most. We confirm the City's actual vehicle at kickoff and surface those divergences as scenario inputs in the comp recommendations.

Employer monthly share illustrative pending production data at engagement award. Production rates pulled from the City of Gainesville's own adopted rate sheet and its actual plan election and benefit-election distribution at engagement award.