Specifications include, but are not limited to: Set forth a wage salary survey to collect data on salaries of indigent defense providers and prosecutors. Review hourly rates for appointed counsel to determine if they are appropriate or need to be increased/decreased. Also, determine the hourly rate of prosecutors as compared to indigent defense providers to determine whether parity exists. Comparison of pay in the urban vs. rural areas and whether a financial incentive should be created to encourage attorneys to practice indigent defense in the rural counties. Review Temporary Regulations 41 and 42 to determine a “reasonable salary” and “reasonable hourly rate.” Consultant shall meet (virtually) with the Executive Leadership during the project, as needed. Consultant shall identify and benchmark Indigent Defense Providers salaries across the State: comparing urban and rural; state, county, and federal; full time employees of an office and independent contractors. Consultant shall review compensation of indigent defense providers in the rural counties and compare the compensation to an hourly basis of prosecutors in the same county with comparable experience. This review should take into account that prosecutors do not pay for overhead or expenses out of their own compensation. Consultant shall conduct relevant research and provide comparative analysis of conventional salaries and best practices of those peer organizations. Consultant shall review increases in the cost of living since the hourly rate for appointed counsel was last amended in 2003 (See NRS 7.125). Market compensation data should also be presented by gender and race to ensure equitable pay in each of these areas.
