Some Batavia city employees will be getting 3.5% raises in 2026, following approval by the City Council at its meeting on Monday.
The raises will apply to non-collectively bargained employees, paid on-call fire department members and Emergency Service Disaster Agency members of the fire department, per a memo from the city’s Director of Human Resources Wendy Bednarek included in Monday’s meeting agenda.
The city’s employee positions and their corresponding pay grades can be found in documents included in Monday’s agenda. They also outline the set wages for on-call members of the Batavia Fire Department and for Emergency Service Disaster Agency members of the department.
On Monday, the council also approved removing the city’s Water and Wastewater Superintendent position, and changing the city job titled Software Deployment Analyst to Enterprise Application Specialist, per Bednarek’s memo.
The Consumer Price Index stood at 2.9% as of August, per the memo, and is expected to be between 2.5% and 3.0% for 2026.
Per the memo, union-represented city employees have negotiated salary increases for 2026.
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