Pay Disparity

#FairTrooperPayToday

Your Arizona State Troopers need your help… They’re facing an enormous pay disparity problem that’s been growing for many years with no end in sight… Now they are paying a heavy price. Each year our state government promises to address the issue and each year it gets worse… This hurts the Troopers while the cost to fix the problem simply continues to get larger and harder to swallow. It affects every part of the agency from morale to recruitment and retainment. It keeps them from attracting and holding onto the best people… Possible recruits choose to join other agencies and Troopers leave early in their careers for better pay elsewhere… In the end, this affects you and the quality of the service they provide.

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We Need Your Help…

We need your help to convince your state government that now is the time to fix this problem before it gets even worse. As the pay gap increases each year, the solution gets more and more expensive and out of reach and the situation for the troopers gets worse. We have the funding to fix this, let’s do it the right way and keep this from happening again.

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A Vision For The Future

It’s been more than several years now your state troopers and DPS employees have been waiting for the pay raises they’ve been promised. Though new solutions are suggested and some have even been implemented, they all end up being half measures that don’t fix the problem or sometimes make it even worse. Our goal is to educate everyone about what the real problems are and to work together to fix them the right way so they don’t cause undue pressure on state budgets and fixes the issues once and for all so they don’t happen again. We don’t want to keep kicking the can down the road for another year and make the problems worse than they already are. Each time we do this, the problems just get larger and harder to solve efficiently.

Our Purpose

What We Face

FY 2019 shows that sworn Trooper salaries lagged behind other Arizona law enforcement agencies by over 15% and their professional staff by almost 18%…

Of the over 42 Arizona agencies surveyed, only seven (12) had equivalent salaries less than the Department of Public Safety… Your Troopers simply can’t compete with those numbers and the facts show it.

The Issues

Morale

All of your DPS employees are very proud of the job they do. Their main concern is providing the people of Arizona with the best services they possibly can. It is their honor to be a part of this agency and its proud history, but the pay gap has put a serious dent in their morale. Each year that the pay gap with other agencies gets larger, it gets harder and harder to maintain their morale and more difficult to retain & recruit personnel.

Recruitment and Retainment

In FY 2019 alone there were 185 separations from the Department of Public Safety including retirements and almost 86.5% were ‘regrettable attrition’. This means they were people they didn’t want to lose…

If you break it down, the sworn regrettable attrition rate was almost 86.7% and the professional staff rate was almost 86.3%.

Irrecoverable Costs

When a trooper or professional staff employee leaves the department as ‘regrettable attrition’ all of the costs associated with training that person are lost and irrecoverable. Additionally, a new person must be hired and trained to replace that person and the department loses all of the experience the previous employee earned over those years. It is a losing battle that has a major negative affect on overall morale.

Under Staffing

Under staffing is a problem. When you have a tough time recruiting people and keeping them, you have personnel shortages. These shortages become harder to fill when pay affects recruiting new people. These shortages last longer over time and eventually cause the department to make adjustments to coverage and service levels. This is never good and until the pay gap is resolved it will never get better. As a real world example, DPS is considering closing the entire dispatch center for Northern Arizona (Northern OpsComm) by attrition over time because they having such a difficult time replacing and recruiting new personnel for those positions. One of the main reasons is pay doesn’t reflect the cost of living for people in that area. This is a serious problem. It will affect the service levels in that area.

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About #FairTrooperPayToday

our Arizona State Troopers need your help. They’re facing an enormous pay disparity problem that’s been growing for many years with no end in sight. Now they are paying a heavy price. Each year our state government promises to address the issue and each year it gets worse. This hurts the Troopers while the cost to fix the problem simply continues to get larger and harder to swallow. It affects every part of the agency from morale to recruitment and retainment. It keeps them from attracting and holding onto the best
people. Possible recruits choose to join other agencies and Troopers leave early in their careers for better pay elsewhere. In the end, this affects you and the quality of the service they provide. FY 2019 shows that sworn Trooper salaries lagged behind other Arizona law enforcement agencies by over 15% and their professional staff by almost 18%.

Of the over 42 Arizona agencies surveyed, only twelve (12) had equivalent salaries less than the Department of Public Safety. Your Troopers simply can’t compete with those numbers and the facts show it. In FY 2019 alone, there were 185 separations from the Department of Public Safety including retirements and almost 86.5% were ‘regrettable attrition’. This means they were people they didn’t want to lose. If you break it down, the sworn regrettable attrition rate was almost 86.7% and the professional staff rate was almost 86.3%. Stop gaps and half measures have gotten us to this point. It’s time we fixed this problem once and for all and it’s imperative we do it right this time.

We can’t just keep kicking the can down the road for others to solve later. The stakes are just too high.

Ready to take the next step and support the troopers?

What can I do?

Our biggest need is making our state government understand that you care about the troopers and you want them to work with us to solve this problem now and make sure it doesn’t happen again. We’ve included a list of contact information for your state representatives so you can call, write a letter, or email them and tell them you support the troopers and you want to fix the tremendous pay gap that exists and make sure this problem doesn’t occur again. You can donate to our campaign using the donation buttons if you wish. You can also purchase any of our merchandise and show your support for a pay disparity fix and educate others as to the issues we face.

Use the chart below to locate your legislative district and identify your representatives. If you don’t know your legislative district, click here to go to the district locator page and type in your address to find it, then use the chart below.

Make a Call…

You can use the phone numbers listed below to call your representative and tell them you support the troopers and would like us to work together to solve this problem and do it right this time so this doesn’t happen again. We’ve recommended a solution that includes a very fair increase so as to not break the budget and small cost of living adjustment each year to make sure this never happens again. We need your help to get this solution passed during this legislative session. As a voter in their district, your opinion matters and making it heard is important to both of us. Let’s solve #FairTrooperPayToday together…

	Representative	Phone	Representative	Phone	State Senator	Phone
1	David Stringer	602-926-4838	Noel Campbell	602-926-3124	Karen Fann	602-926-5874/5300
2	Rosanna Gabaldon	602-926-3424	Daniel Hernandez Jr.	602-926-4840	Andrea Dalessandro	602-926-5342
3	Sally Ann Gonzales	602-926-3278	Alma Hernandez	602-926-3176	Sally Ann Gonzales	602-926-3278
4	Charlene Fernandez	602-926-3098	Geraldine Peten	602-926-4842	Lisa Otondo	602-926-3002
5	Leo Biasiucci	602-926-3018	Regina Cobb	602-926-3126	Sonny Borrelli	602-926-5051
6	Walter Blackman	602-926-3043	Bob Thorpe	602-926-5219	Sylvia Allen	602-926-5409
7	Arlando Teller	602-926-3069	Myron Tsosie	602-926-3157	Jamescita Peshlakai	602-926-5160
8	TJ Shope	602-926-3012	David Cook	602-926-5162	Frank Pratt	602-926-5761
9	Pamela Powers Hannley	602-926-4848	Randall Friese	602-926-3138	Victoria Steele	602-926-5683
10	Kristen Engel	602-926-5178	Domingo De Grazia	602-926-5153	David Bradley	602-926-5262
11	Mark Finchem	602-926-3122	Vince Leach	602-926-3106	Vince Leach	602-926-3106
12	Warren Petersen	602-926-4136	Travis Grantham	602-926-4868	Eddie Farnsworth	602-926-5735
13	Timothy Dunn	602-926-4139	Joanne Osborne	602-926-3181	Sine Kerr	602-926-5955
14	Becky Nutt	602-926-4852	Gail Griffin	602-926-5895	David Gowan	602-926-5154
15	John Allen	602-926-4916	Nancy Barto	602-926-5766	Heather Carter	602-926-5503
16	John Fillmore	602-926-3187	Kelly Townsend	602-926-4467	David Farnsworth	602-926-3020
17	Jeff Weninger	602-926-3092	Jennifer Pawlik	602-926-3193	J.D. Mesnard	602-926-4481
18	Jennifer Jermaine	602-926-3199	Mitzi Epstein	602-926-4870	Sean Bowie	602-926-3004
19	Diego Espinoza	602-926-3134	Lorenzo Sierra	602-926-3211	Lupe Contreras	602-926-5284
20	Shawnna Bolick	602-926-3244	Anthony Kern	602-926-3102	Paul Boyer	602-926-4173
21	Tony Rivero	602-926-3104	Kevin Payne	602-926-4854	Rick Gray	602-926-5413
22	Frank Carroll	602-926-3249	Ben Toma	602-926-3298	David Livingston	602-9264178
23	Jay Lawrence	602-926-3095	John Kavanagh	602-926-5170	Michelle Ugenti-Rita	602-926-4480
24	Amish Shah	602-926-3280	Jennifer Longdon	602-926-3300	Lela Alston	602-926-5829
25	Michelle Udall	602-926-4856	Rusty Bowers	602-926-3128	Tyler Pace	602-926-5760
26	Isela Blanc	602-926-5187	Athena Salman	602-926-4858	Juan Mendez	602-926-4124
27	Reginald Bolding	602-926-3132	Diego Rodriguez	602-926-3285	Rebecca Rios	602-926-3073
28	Aaron Lieberman	602-926-3300	Kelli Butler	602-926-5156	Kate Brophy Mgee	602-926-4486
29	Richard Andrade	602-926-3130	Cesar Chavez	602-926-4862	Martin Quezada	602-926-5911
30	Raquel Teran	602-926-3308	Robert Meza	602-926-3425	Otoniel Navarrete	602-926-4864

Use the chart below to locate your legislative district and identify your representatives. If you don’t know your legislative district, click here to go to the district locator page and type in your address to find it, then use the chart below.

Send an email…

You can click on the email address for each of your representatives to launch an email window where you can tell them that you support the troopers and that you want us to work together to solve the pay gap problem and do it right this time so that it doesn’t happen again. We’ve recommended a solution that includes a very fair increase so as to not break the budget and small cost of living adjustment each year to make sure this never happens again. We need your help to get this solution passed during this legislative session.

We’ve included some boilerplate text below to include if you’d like to use it. Simply use your mouse to copy it to your clipboard and then click on the email(s) of your representatives one by one and paste into each email.

Sample email text:

I would like to express my steadfast support for the Arizona State Troopers and the Department of Public Safety in their desire to solve the pay disparity issues they currently face and I ask that you work together with them to insure that this issue is resolved correctly this time so that it doesn’t happen again. They’ve recommended a solution that includes a very fair increase so as to not break the budget and a small cost of living adjustment each year to make sure this never happens again. I would very much like your help to get this solution passed during this legislative session. As a voter in your district this issue is important to me. Thank you for your help in resolving this very serious problem. Let’s solve #FairTrooperPayToday together…

District	Rep Email	Rep Email	Senator Email
1	dstringer@azleg.gov	ncampbell@azleg.gov	kfann@azleg.gov
2	rgabaldon@azleg.gov	dhernandez@azleg.gov	adalessandro@azleg.gov
3	sgonzales@azleg.gov	ahernandez@azleg.gov	sgonzales@azleg.gov
4	cfernandez@azleg.gov	gpeten@azleg.gov	lotondo@azleg.gov
5	lbiasiucci@azleg.gov	rcobb@azleg.gov	sborrelli@azleg.gov
6	wblackman@azleg.gov	bthorpe@azleg.gov	sallen@azleg.gov
7	ateller@azleg.gov	mtsosie@azleg.gov	jpehlakai@azleg.gov
8	tshope@azleg.gov	dcook@azleg.gov	fpratt@azleg.gov
9	ppowershannley@azleg.gov	rfriese@azleg.gov	vsteele@azleg.gov
10	kengel@azleg.gov	ddegrazia@azleg.gov	dbradley@azleg.gov
11	mfinchem@azleg.gov	vleach@azleg.gov	vleach@azleg.gov
12	wpertersen@azleg.gov	tgrantham@azleg.gov	efarnsworth@azleg.gov
13	tdunn@azleg.gov	josborne@azleg.gov	skerr@azleg.gov
14	bnutt@azleg.gov	ggriffin@azleg.gov	dgowan@azleg.gov
15	jallen@azleg.gov	nbarto@azleg.gov	hcarter@azleg.gov
16	jfillmore@azleg.gov	ktownsend@azleg.gov	dfarnsworth@azleg.gov
17	jweninger@azleg.gov	jpawlik@azleg.gov	jmesnard@azleg.gov
18	jjermaine@azleg.gov	mepstein@azleg.gov	sbowie@azleg.gov
19	despinoza@azleg.gov	lsierra@azleg.gov	lcontreras@azleg.gov
20	sbolick@azleg.gov	akern@azleg.gov	pboyer@azleg.gov
21	trivero@azleg.gov	kpayne@azleg.gov	rgrau@azleg.gov
22	fcarroll@azleg.gov	btoma@azleg.gov	dlivingston@azleg.gov
23	jlawrence@azleg.gov	jkavanagh@azleg.gov	mugenti-rita@azleg.gov
24	ashah@azleg.gov	jlongdon@azleg.gov	lalston@azleg.gov
25	mudall@azleg.gov	rbowers@azleg.gov	tpace@azleg.gov
26	iblanc@azleg.gov	asalman@azleg.gov	jmendez@azleg.gov
27	rbolding@azleg.gov	drodriguez@azleg.gov	rrios@azleg.gov
28	alieberman@azleg.gov	kbutler@azleg.gov	kbrophymcgee@azleg.gov
29	randrade@azleg.gov	cchavez@azleg.gov	mquezada@azleg.gov
30	rteran@azleg.gov	rmeza@azleg.gov	tnavarrete@azleg.gov

Use this address and mail a letter to you representative at the capitol explaining your support of #FairTrooperPayToday.

Arizona State Capitol Complex
Attn: (Your Representative)
1700 W Washington St
Phoenix, AZ 85007

Write a letter…

You can send a letter to your representatives explaining your support for the troopers and their desire to solve the pay gap issue once and for all, the right way, and ask that we work together to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

We’ve also created a boilerplate letter below you can copy and paste into a Word document or other software of your choice and add whatever you like to it. You can then print it and send to your representative using the address above.

Sample letter text:

To the Honorable (Your Representative),

I would like to express my steadfast support for the Arizona State Troopers and the Department of Public Safety in their desire to solve the pay disparity issues they currently face and I ask that you work together with them to insure that this issue is resolved correctly this time so that it doesn’t happen again. They’ve recommended a solution that includes a very fair increase so as to not break the budget and a small cost of living adjustment each year to make sure this never happens again. I would very much like your help to get this solution passed during this legislative session. As a voter in your district this issue is important to me.

Thank you for your help in resolving this very serious problem.

Let’s solve #FairTrooperPayToday together…

Let’s Do It Right This Time!

This problem has been getting worse each year. Stop gaps and half measures have gotten us to this point… It’s time we fixed this problem once and for all and it’s imperative we do it right this time. We can’t just keep kicking the can down the road for others to solve later. The stakes are just too high.

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News & Updates

Read the DPS 2019 Annual Pay Report here…

Feb 11, 2020

If you'd like to know more about the pay issue your Arizona State Troopers and the Department of Public Safety are facing, you can read the facts here. This is the Annual DPS Pay Report, a document of public record detailing the problems. You can also download the...

Read the DPS 2018 Annual Pay Report here…

Feb 5, 2019

If you'd like to know more about the pay issue your Arizona State Troopers and the Department of Public Safety are facing, you can read the facts here. This is the Annual DPS Pay Report, a document of public record detailing the problems. You can also download the...

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KTAR 92.3 FM – Arizona’s Morning News w/Jim Sharpe

Feb 8, 2019 | 92.3 FM | 7:40AM

Arizona State Troopers Association President Sgt Jimmy Chavez will do an interview on KTAR Radio 92.3 FM with Jim Sharpe on Arizona’s Morning News at 7:40 AM to start our #FairTrooperPayToday campaign and explain to Arizona residents what problems we’re facing and what we’ve proposed to solve them. Please make sure to listen and help us get the word out.

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Campaign Kickoff for #FairTrooperPayToday

Feb 10, 2020 | Digital Media

This is the official kickoff of our #FairTrooperPayToday campaign. We’ll be launching it via social media/email & our website. Be on the lookout for our new intro video, posts, and other digital content and please share them with everyone to help spread the word.

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