Whats the mean starting salary for that area?
It is a three-way round robin. Vallejo, Oakland, and a third area city have their contracts tied to each other.
When one gets a raise, the next in line gets bumped to a set percentage, ‘to maintain parity’; then the next the same, and back to the first that is set at (100 +X%) higher than....
A Socialist’s version of a perpetual motion machine.
IIRC, the Vallejo City Manager lost his job a while back over this issue; believe there were sonme recalls, too.