Butler County’s nonunion employee salaries remain unchanged.

County solicitor Julie Graham said Friday at the salary board meeting there was no evidence an organizational chart, which list those staff members’ base salaries, must be approved.

“It’s not a legal requirement,” she said.

The salary board, which is comprised of the three county commissioners and the controller, on Jan. 3 failed to approve the chart in 2 to 2 vote.

County Controller Jack McMillin and Commissioner Jim Eckstein dissented because they wanted the personnel director pulled off the chart for a separate vote because of a pay hike.

Commissioners Bill McCarrier and Dale Pinkerton, who voted to approve the chart, refused to take any position off the chart.

Graham said there is no legal precedent regarding approval of salary schedule, which the county calls the organizational chart.

“There is no Pennsylvania case law on point in this matter,” she said.

Graham said the county salary board did not approve the organizational chart from at least 1980 to 1991. She is unsure why a new board in 1992 started the practice of doing so.

Graham checked with two other 4th-class counties, Beaver and Washington. Both counties do not approve their organizational charts.

She said the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania agreed that the chart doesn’t need approved unless any salaries are being revised.