Keeping an eye on the raises

There's been ongoing talk over the weekend about the raises proposed by the City Manager (Dianne Williamson weighed in yesterday). One piece worth keeping an eye on is the question (again!) of school-side versus city-side:

In addition to rolling back the salary regradings, the councilors believe it is equally important to do a compensation study. They said they want to know how the city’s top managers are paid in comparison to those in other cities, and those in the School Department as well.
They point out, for instance, that the School Department’s director of human resources and chief financial officer are paid considerably more than their counterparts on the city side.

One assumes that this compensation study will include information about education, experience, length of service, and success in the job, rather than a simple one-to-one numbers comparision. Otherwise, this smacks of yet another attempt to pit the city against the schools and take money out of the school budget.