I have a really good staff and I'd like them to get a raise. I don't think anyone works for fun,'' she says. All police departments in Robertson County pay more than we do at the present time,'' Bollinger says. We lose sometimes 50 to 60 to 70 percent of our employees. Jackie Wilkerson, director of Robertson County's Emergency Medical Services, says county paramedics and emergency medical technicians also leave Robertson to find better paying jobs.
Employees work hard doing their jobs.
He notes that Cheatham County already pays its medical employees 50 cents more per hour than Robertson. We have a 71 percent turnover rate. It makes it hard, on us to provide a quality service, because we've had so much turnover. I realize we can't compete with Metro, but the surrounding counties, Montgomery, Rutherford, Sumner, Wilson, Williamson, I'm losing them to those folks too because of the pay and benefits situation. It's almost getting to a critical stage as far as EMTs and paramedics goes.