Handful of GWA, GPA management to receive pay raises

Thirty-thousand dollars -- that's the total amount management and attorneys at the Guam Power Authority and Guam Waterworks Authority will get come Jan. 1. 

Consolidated Commission on Utilities member Simon Sanchez said six were given pay raises, some of whom never got a raise in the last half-decade. 

"We rate them on a scale from one through five, with three meaning you meet expectations, four meaning you exceed expectations and five you greatly exceed expectations," he said. "All of our management team received scores no less than 3.6."

He said GPA General Manager John Benavente was rated 4.09 out of five.

"He was given a $9,000 pay raise, from $225,000 to $234,000 -- his first since 2015," Sanchez said. 

GWA General Manager Miguel Bordallo also will be seeing a pay increase after six years.

"He was given a 5% increase," Sanchez said. "Increasing his salary to $184,340 about a $9,400 increase."  

Also approved for raises, GPA CFO John Kim, GWA CFO Taling Taitano, GPA Legal Counsel Graham Botha, and GWA Legal Counsel Theresa Rojas.

Sanchez said these increases will come directly from GPA and GWA, and not from ratepayers. 

"None of the pay increases will result in any kind of rate adjustment," he said. " They’re all going to be paid out of existing revenues from GPA and GWA."

He adds the increases were necessary to retain the leadership and their commitment to achieving renewable energy in the near future.

 

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